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Your article concerning Governor Jerry Brown [April 14] revealed a refreshing philosophy of government diametrically opposed to that extant in Washington, so well documented by Hugh Sidey's comments in the same issue. Governor Brown has reintroduced a forgotten human trait: common sense. Walter L. Peterson, M.D. San Francisco...
...arbitrary official definitions. Questions like what is a Spanish surname, and how does the state classify someone who has one white and one black parent, can only have arbitrarily legal answers. The necessity of having legally established racial definitions and assigning these labels to people is another Nazi-like trait of quota systems...
...biweekly tattler of taste and chic presided ever by John Burr Fairchild. Since it was launched three years ago last week by the graciously gossipy publisher of Women's Wear Daily and seven other trade publications, W has toiled relentlessly to depict, extol and embody that elusive trait. This year alone, W has identified everything from Quality People (Queen Elizabeth, Elliot Richardson, Julia Child, the Due de Brissac, Sir Cecil Beaton and 33 others) to Quality Bread (Poilane and Panetier, two Paris boulangeries). Quips a Fairchild Publications art director: "Pretty soon we'll have to change the name...
...occasion, McCloskey's hot Irish temper has proved a match for Kissinger's shouting, fist-slamming outbursts. That undiplomatic trait may stand McCloskey in good stead when he tries to tell his boss a thing or two about dealing with a Congress that is determined, as they say on the Hill, to be in on the takeoffs of U.S. foreign policy as well as the crash landings...
Modesty, then, is another Bolduc trait in addition to his abilities as a hockey player. The scouts are all keeping a close watch on him, and The New York Times has billed him as the "fastest College hockey player in the nation." Art Kaminsky said he will be the next Dave Hynes, which may of may not be a compliment depending on how you look...