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Last year, the Crimson organized the offense with two setters, seniors Louise Horn and Ray Kinoshita (who is taking time off this fall), two tall middle blockers, Rusty Baker and Liz Peterson, and two hitters, Schoofs and Val Romero. Sophomore Isabel Holland, who saw-action as the all-important seventh man, may replace Kinoshita this season, but with a group of talented freshmen expected to try out, no positions are secure...
...with the whole routine." In the meantime, they hope to save money from this summer's tour for a trip to Australia this winter and perhaps Europe next year. What they and others seem to desire more than anything else is constant variety. Coffey was once a cabinet maker, Val Alstyne "a three-piece, nine-to-five, memos-and-meetings man." The old way "just seemed so silly," Van Alstyne says...
...body of diplomatic legend that Alexander Haig encountered when he became Secretary of State was the story that France's ex-President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had twice asked Jimmy Carter whether he would use nuclear weapons if the Soviet Union invaded Western Europe. And twice, the story goes, Carter said...
...levels of French politics tend to be knotted up in the same school ties. No fewer than eight members of Mitterrand's Socialist Cabinet, for example, are alumni of the vaunted Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.), which also produced seven members of the outgoing Giscard government -including Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a top-ranked scholar of the class of '51. Foreign Minister Cheysson (class of '48) is an enarque, as products of the elite school are known, who previously held posts with the leftist Fourth Republic government of Pierre Mendès-France...
...stunning victory last month over former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing appears to have begun a swing to the Socialists. One poll last week gave the Socialists and their allies, the tiny Left Radical Movement, 36% of the vote, up dramatically from the 28% they won on the first presidential ballot. According to most forecasts, the Socialists could double their current total of 117 seats in the 491-member National Assembly when the two rounds of elections-on June 14 and 21 -are completed. Barring a string of disasters at the local level, the Socialists should...