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Last week's stamp of approval makes it even more likely that Conrail can be removed from public stewardship and sold to a private owner. The Government is trying hard to do just that. The investment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. has been hired to find a buyer. During her speaking appearances, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole frequently asks audiences: "If you know of anyone who wants to buy a railroad, please let me know." Now that Conrail is running steadily in the black, the Government will insist that the railroad be sold intact and not piece by piece...
...lighter moments were not generated by political ambition, however. A late April council resolution allocated 20 cents to Princeton University's Dean of Admissions James W. Wickenden. The funds were aimed to cover the prick of a postage stamp because council members had heard that the dean had travelled to Florida to deliver the verdict of admission personally to model/actress Bookie shields...
...voice from Williamsburg's past shouts louder than that of Patrick Henry, who in 1765 protested the British Stamp Act ("Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful...
...Commander Bernard W. Rogers has been conducting a virtual one-man crusade to encourage alliance members to strengthen their conventional forces. Among prominent Europeans who agree with Rogers: West German Defense Minister Manfred Worner. Last week U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer gave the Reagan Administration's stamp of approval to the European Security Study's report. Said he: "We support...
...consistent rejection of promising junior professors whom Harvard would sometimes do well to gamble on, Finally, an unfortunate side effect of Rosovsky's centralized decision-making style has been the demotion of the Faculty as a whole from a lively forum for high-level debate to a rubber stamp for Faculty Council decisions...