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...armed forces to heel. The disgruntled officers clearly hoped to unsettle the government, and they could try to do so again. Says an Argentine official: "If they could nominate officers and make decisions, they hoped to reassert what they see as a natural right. Then they'd say that such-and-such a minister was a Communist and had to go. Eventually, they may have been looking for a coup down the road." Alfonsin's task now is to keep tight control of a military establishment that has been battered by war and human rights violations. At the same time...
...paper--invent an absorbing world of heroic athletes. Listeners knew he was inventing the games, but pretended otherwise. It was more exciting that way. "There was a complicity in the make-believe," Wills writes. And why not? After all, a ball game had taken place, one team had won, and such-and-such a player had hit a home run while another struck...
...moving expenses, says another assistant professor "the only university I know of that doesn't is Harvard." Mortgages ought to be made available to junior faculty, according to one assistant professor, who was told by the Harvard Credit Union that "we only start giving out loans for people who get such-and-such a salary from Harvard, which I happened to know that year was the minimum salary for a full professor...
...high time that the League of Women Voters instructed the candidates about the debates [Sept. 8] as follows: "The American voters are going to conduct job interviews for the post of President, at such-and-such places, dates and times. Serious applicants will show up for these interviews. Others need not show." Perhaps this will indicate just who's supposed to be doing the hiring around here...
...orations begin with straight history: Radcliffe was founded in such-and-such year, by so-and-so, in some building in Radcliffe Yard, and grew in the following three easy steps, etc. Above our heads slides of Anne Radcliffe and Ada Louise Comstock mingle with shots of women in long dresses in libraries and dining halls. Interspersed among these historical slides are contemporary scenes of Radcliffe and Cambridge...