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Straightest Arrow in Town: Accustomed to drawing praise from U.S. News and World Report and the Chronicle of Higher Education as the nation's top educator, President Bok received attention from a different sector in July when "M" magazine declared that Harvard's head was in. According to "M," the straight arrow is the thing to be today, and Bok flies as true as any the magazine could find...
Even as a child, Bork delighted in running counter to the grain. He became a popular but bookish teenager who mystified his friends in the solidly Republican town of Ben Avon, a Pittsburgh suburb, by declaring himself a socialist. His father, a purchasing agent for a steel company, and his mother, a teacher, both thought the flirtation with socialism was crazy. "I read The Coming Struggle for Power, a Marxist analysis of capitalism by John Strachey," he recalled later. "It was powerful stuff and I thought it was probably true...
Straightest Arrow in Town: Accustomed to drawing praise from U.S. News and World Report and the Chronicle of Higher Education as the nation's top educator, President Bok received attention from a different sector in July when "M" magazine declared that Harvard's head was in. According to "M," the straight arrow is the thing to be today, and Bok flies as true as any the magazine could find...
Vice President George Bush has survived the Iran-contra hearings. Senator Bob Dole has yet to make his big breakthrough. Congressman Jack Kemp is still scrambling for daylight on the far right of the field. Among the Democrats, the race remains as wide open as a frontier town on a Saturday night. Senator Joseph Biden was supposed to speak to a new generation, but then so was new- formula Coke. Congressman Richard Gephardt tried to trade on protectionism, only to see that issue sink like the dollar. Governor Michael Dukakis made inroads by warbling about his "Massachusetts miracle," but that...
Sooner or later everybody hears about Homestead, a dwindling Pennsylvania mill town of 5,092 souls just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. It was the site of historic labor-management strife in 1892, when striking workers lost a bloody (ten dead) battle with armed, union-busting Pinkerton agents hired by the Carnegie Steel Co. More recently, after U.S. Steel (now the USX Corp.) closed a plant that had provided about 15,000 jobs, the town commanded attention as a victim of the economic tides that have sunk smokestack industries. Last week Homestead blurted into national attention yet again -- this...