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...came across as thoughtful, worldly and more humorous than his nickname, "Grim Grom," would suggest. Insisting that British and French missiles must be included in any agreement limiting warheads in Europe, he asked what would happen if they were launched against the U.S.S.R.: "Will a French missile have a stamp on it, 'I am French. I was not to be taken into account? ' " When Loory inquired what effect his promotion last month to the additional post of First Deputy Premier would have on his duties, Gromyko deadpanned: "I think I can say the Foreign Minister will not have...
Committee member Noam Chormsky, a linguistics professor at MIT, cited an incident in which a proposed feminist journal--originated by an Arab-Israeli woman--was denied the necessary "government stamp." Although the case was taken to Israel's highest court, there was no American reaction to the refusal...
Even more alarming is the extent of media attention Byrne's write-in campaign is receiving. Though newspaper and television political sages continually emphasize that her campaign would probably be illegal--Byrne plans to make stickers and name-stamps available to voters so they can stamp her name and an X on the ballot--the same commentators are taking care to clarify step-to-step voting procedures for writing in a candidate--in case someone wants to. And the fact that the Superintendant of the Chicago Park District Edmund L. Kelly, the largest patronage dispenser next to Byrne, decided...
...time the Harvard women's ice hockey team and Mr. Zucker "roll in," please have them get in touch with me so I can arrange for their participating in and experiencing the great range of activities and events that do occur at Colby. It is my obligation to help stamp out this affliction known as "urban provincialism" complicated by conceit and dreary condescension. Peter Kingsley Director, Public Affairs, Colby College
...accustomed to covering politicians, show-business personalities, even celebrity convicts, who talk to the media. But the Queen doesn't give interviews, and her public appearances on this trip were so fleeting. I sometimes thought I could learn as much by examining her profile on a British postage stamp." For White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, reporting the Queen's visit to President Reagan's Rancho del Cielo involved a harrowing trip by van along narrow mountain roads, fording storm-swollen streams, then marking time in rain, wind and fog. "At times like these," he muses...