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...history of Argentina and the Americas. Although her education never progressed beyond high school, she is not without political experience. During Perón's exile in Spain, she twice returned alone to Argentina to end squabbles among the Peronistas. She acted as Perón's intermediary with the endless stream of supporters who visited him in Spain, and even represented him in China, where she had talks with both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai...
...confidentiality. The apparent double standard seems all the more blatant when newspapers become preachy on the issue. Last summer, during the height of the Agnew investigation, the New York Times, Washington Post and Washington Star-News agreed in editorials that the beleaguered Vice President had been abused by the stream of leaks from Justice Department sources damaging to his public defense. Yet the same three papers (along with other publications, including TIME) had considered it legitimate to publish incriminating information in their news columns...
...tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions, but we can now by contrast see how much his spirit meant to the nation...
...stream of protests over housing prompted the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life to reconsider the assignment system. On a motion by Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, the advisory group voted in December to abolish all House quotas for concentration, school background, and rank in class. Masters also lost their time-honored right to pick some residents of their Houses...
...Jones supposes in all apparent innocence, undertake a hunting and fishing trip up the Hassayampa River. It is "a burly stream with its share of trout," which-what's this? -"rises in northern China, meanders through an Indian reservation in central Wisconsin, and empties finally into Croton Lake not a mile from where I live in southern New York State." The novel's epigraph, the reader notes with a sense of having been sandbagged, is a whimsy of the trout-fishing sage, Sparse Grey Hackle, who says that the water of the Hassayampa "renders those who drink...