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Last month the university's board of trustees tried to still the uproar over Funderburk by putting him in charge of a new administrative organization for the university's two branches, but placing day-to-day operations at the Auburn campus into the hands of a chancellor. That official, however, will report to Funderburk. The solution has only reinforced the faculty's fears. Its main proponent was R.C. ("Red") Bamberg, 71, vice chairman of the board and a major figure in rural Democratic politics and the Alabama Farm Bureau. Bamberg, who has served on the board since...
...uproar comes in the midst of an unprecedented national debate over defense policy. Long accustomed to giving he military whatever it demands, in a country where patriotism and the armed forces are nearly synonymous, Frenchmen are now questioning that practice in the face of rising budget pressures. Earlier this month neo-Gaullist Deputy Pierre Messmer, a former Defense Minister under Charles de Gaulle, led a censure motion against the Mitterrand government's defense policy in the National Assembly. Messmer attacked the "mere 15%" of public spending devoted to the military as "the weakest figure since the second World...
...control of the wheel. Most movies, as everyone knows, end up in the ravine, bottoms up among the broken and rusting remnants of last year's improbable dreams. A few-sensibly designed or well-balanced or inherently powerful- seem to steer themselves into the theaters, oblivious to the uproar that attended their journey...
Randy McGrorty (Billing) overdevelops. Although his portrayal is uproariously satiric, he effects the level of uproar to an extravagant degree--a degree even satire cannot stomach. Jody Barrett (Hovstadt), while an excellent actress, occasionally applies histrionics and melodrama to cautious scenes, underrating the dramatic ones...
Goldberg and other Washington lobbyists sympathize with Harvard's recent dilemma at the Med School. They said that in similar cases involving other universities, an initial uproar is made, but the final settlement is for less than 10 percent of the original charge...