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Elizabeth Glazer '77, who works for the commission, yesterday said, "There's a history in Cambridge not to register students because the Old Machine people felt that they'd tip the political balance in favor of the liberals." The commission is not acting maliciously, "they just see a greater opportunity to drop people," she said...
Chief Targets. TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil reports that House Speaker Tip O'Neill, convinced that no present Congressman is guilty of wrongdoing in the scandal, has told the House Ethics Committee "to leave no stone unturned." The committee's chief targets apparently are the former House members who were Park's beneficiaries. Moreover, Hanna's and Gallagher's tax returns are being examined by federal prosecutors, who hope to turn up violations that can be used to force the former legislators to open up about other Congressmen's dealings with Park...
Lilting Music. Such outbursts of bookishness threaten to tip the novel into a treatise. Fortunately, Mcllvanney always manages to regain his balance by hitting the streets. His evocations of the old city seem etched in ancient stone and rubbed with coal dust. Laidlaw runs his investigation from a fading hotel: "The architecture was Victorian and very dirty. It had been cunningly equipped with curlicues and excrescences, the chief effect of which was to make it an enormous gin for drifting soot and aerial muck. It stood now half-devoured by its catch, weighted with years of Glasgow...
South Korea sees itself as militarily strong, but facing an extreme hazard. Every Korean leader seems to have a map in his mind and a geographic lecture on his lips: the country is the tip of a small peninsula at the edge of the Asian continent. It faces not only the intransigent opposition of North Korea on its only border, but beyond that the land mass of both China and Soviet Russia. At its back and sides, South Koreans repeatedly point out, there is only...
...Schultze to back him up. A disgruntled Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the House majority leader, who has known the two men for years, later complained to newsmen: "One of the two has changed. Somebody has changed, and I'm damned sure it isn't Tip O'Neill...