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...abruptly fired for his opposition to Governor Ronald Reagan's budget-cutting plans for U.C. Working virtually full time for the commission, Kerr led its support for the basic structure of the present U.S. higher educational system. Though the system is now undergoing "its greatest trauma of self-doubt," notes the final report, the commission has "faith in its potential for continued vitality...
...first trauma came at the gate. The Brown athletic department's assistant director of sports informations wanted to confiscate my camera. "You can't take that camera in there," he said. "Yes I can't." "No you can't." "Why not?" Because the coach doesn't want anyone spying on his team. "Who would want to spy on the Brown football team?" "Now listen you, you can't take that camera in there." I gave him my camera. Fifteen minutes later, I was sitting in the 61st row on the home-field side of the stadium. I felt a hand...
...Watergate case Richard Nixon's "seventh crisis," as an instant and inevitable cliché would have it? Not likely, when it is recalled that the last great trauma in the President's 1962 bestseller Six Crises was the Nixon-Kennedy campaign of 1960-of which he wrote: "Where an individual has carried on his shoulders the hopes of millions, he then faces his greatest test."* Based on the criteria implicit in the cases of the first six, the updated list might look like this...
...STOCKTON has stuck it out as long as he has is a puzzle. Certainly his father has not let up his ugly pressure--as late as Dickie's last year in the juniors Mr. Stockton was still mortifying him in public. And the whole family has felt the trauma of the tension. Mrs. Stockton has fought her husband's tyranny with everything in her. At the Canadian Nationals five years ago, while Dickie's younger sister, Donna, was playing, Mr. Stockton stuck a racket through the fist of his tousle-haired three year old and was tossing tennis balls...
...trauma of the war. followed by the impact of Western technology, has eroded much of the traditional Korean family life, especially in the cities. Custom had compelled all family members to live together in one house, but the young generation today wants to move out. Kim In Ho, a 22-year-old college graduate living in Seoul, proclaims...