Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author Isaac Asimov turned down an invitation Monday to speak at the Senior Class Day ceremony. He joins a growing list of celebrities who refused the same invitation, including woody Allen, Lily Tomlin and Orson Welles...
...Secretary of State, and with him nearly all the way has been either TIME's Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott or State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who had an exclusive interview with Secretary Vance before his latest trip (see NATION). When Vance took off for Africa, Talbott went along. Senior Writer Ed Magnuson used the extensive files from Ogden and Talbott for this week's cover story assessing the Secretary and his record...
Almost from the time Carter picked him for Treasury, Blumenthal seemed uneasy in his job. The White House senior staffers and Strauss himself viewed him as a brilliant, brittle man with an enormous ego, too jealous of his own territory and difficult to deal with. For his part, Blumenthal considered the President's aides inexperienced and in some cases destructive. When he began to hear stories that he had contributed to Bert Lance's downfall, the Secretary went straight to the President and complained. By then, Blumenthal had decided the only way to endure was to put more...
...style. They are grownups, and they don't conceal their ages; if their lives are tougher, they frequently possess a certain centeredness and strength that is unavailable to those much younger, who seem somehow unformed, incomplete, far less interesting-and sometimes unbelievably ignorant. Not long ago, a Radcliffe senior confessed that she did not know what the Holocaust...
...given to the Center by the Mellon Foundation. $500,000 will be used as permanent endowment for junior and senior post-doctoral fellowships, while the remining $100,000 will go toward the Center's library and its additional expenses over a five-year period, Bergson said...