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...drive to fail. Before mapping out a campaign, Manhattan's John Price Jones Co., Inc., a firm of fund-raising consultants, prepares a detailed statement-sometimes 300 pages long -of the college's specific needs and underlying educational philosophy, a "case" that can be broken down to stir the interest of specific donors. "If the need is not there and the facts are not there, there is no case," says John Price Jones's chairman Charles Anger...
...military expert has long known was inevitable: that some civilians would be killed in U.S. raids. In failing to do so, they not only helped to widen the "credibility gap," which is already causing Lyndon Johnson considerable trouble at home, but enabled Hanoi to use the Salisbury reports to stir up a virulent new round of anti-Americanism from London to New Delhi. Even France's normally prudent Le Monde declared that "not a day passes but that the American press catches the President or his collaborators in the flagrant act of lying...
...their rarity alone, Apostle spoons stir the imagination. The Clark Institute's set cost around $30,000; another, inferior set is expected to fetch $15,000 at New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries later this month. The spoons have sculptured knops at the end of their handles, portraying the saints. Each Apostle bears his symbol, or the tools of his martyrdom: St. John holds a cup symbolic of the poisoned wine he was ordered to drink; St. Bartholomew is shown with a knife to signify his being flayed alive; St. Simon carries the saw that sundered...
Cinema Reviewer Brad Darrach considers punning the "art of making a fool of yourself. They really should be silly and awful, to stir up your body." Brad's reviews are punctuated with puns: "Between bouts Presley Elviscerates a few songs"; the lead in the movie The Birds is an "Oedipus wreck"; and the Strategic Air Command hero's wife "chews him out for spending too much time...
...Medicine has aroused bitter criticism from some faculty members, and its future is not at all certain. Perhaps to stir any debate at all over the curriculum, Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, apparently felt it necessary to skirt the standing faculty Committee on Curriculum and have a totally new group draw, up the report. He asked Dr. Alexander Leaf, a member of the Curriculum Committee, last year to pull together a subcommittee. Leaf's sub-committee produced its report last Spring. Rather than risk the Curriculum Committee's toning it down, Ebert threw the proposals...