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...student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), Richard S. Tilden '71 and Steven R. Bowman '72, traveled to California last week to attend a threeday national conference on free schools and to investigate experimental college programs...
...sentimental, if some what political journey. Alaska's Indians and Eskimos, neglected in their isolation, had been a goal on Robert Kennedy's poverty itinerary that he did not live to make. Picking up his brother's trail last week, Senator Edward Kennedy undertook a threeday, 3,600-mile tour of remote Alaskan villages that took him to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. But before the trip was half over, Ted Kennedy was reminded once again of the complexity of Robert's legacy. Besides having inherited the constituency of the poor*, he is also heir...
Without Comfort. In the 1969 contest, 309 hardy snowcatters plowed out of Anchorage on the first leg of a threeday, 600-mile trek to Fairbanks. Propelled by tanklike treads and steered by handlebars attached to a pair of front-running skis, most of the 20 makes of snowmobiles in the race were capable of powering through the snow at 80 m.p.h. on a straightaway. The course, however, spiraled up and around the rugged peaks of the Alaska Range at elevations of 3,300 ft. or more. Bone-chilling winds gusted to 70 m.p.h., and the snowmobilers became more concerned with...
...accord emerged in Washington from a threeday, closed-door meeting of the 20 executive directors of the 105-nation International Monetary Fund and deputies of the "Group of Ten" industrial powers.* While U.S. negotiators expressed some doubts and reservations, IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer called the decision "great progress" toward expanding world monetary reserves. "We have an orchestra now," he said, "although not everyone is playing the same notes...
...midweek the President flew to Nashville, Tenn., to join Lady Bird at the end of her threeday, 1,500-mile tour of Appalachia's schools. "I stood it for two days," he said, after bounding down the ramp of Air Force One and bussing Lady Bird, "but I couldn't last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti...