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Demonstrators at Kennedy tossed jars of Mace and vinegar at a South African jetliner...
...Army captain, Taylor hiked the dusty plains of China in 1937 beside "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, studying the advance of the Japanese army. In the eerie nether light of 3 a.m. on June 6,1944, Taylor-by then a brigadier general -floated to earth behind Utah Beach in Normandy, gathered a handful of his men from the 101st Airborne Division and secured one of the causeways over which troops from the Allied armada would march onto mainland Europe. Later he served as Army Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Now, at 80, he is a guardian...
...administrative politics and academics are like oil and vinegar. They don't mix well, but one usually accompanies the other. Huggins's main task involves finding qualified faculty to teach courses in the department. He and Eileen Southern. Professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, are its only fulltime, tenured professors. Huggins says his current search efforts will result in Dean Rosovsky's offering tenured positions in the department to two scholars early this fall. If the trend of the past decade continues, however, it is doubtful that the two offers will result in appointments to the Harvard faculty. Huggins...
...improbable background that produced France's pre-eminent leftist. He was born in 1916 in Jarnac, a small southwestern town in the Cognac region. His upbringing was seemingly strictly conventional-piously Roman Catholic and petit bourgeois. His father Joseph was a railway stationmaster who inherited a prosperous vinegar business. Mitterrand explains, "To be a Catholic in a small town in the provinces automatically classified you as politically on the right." Yet, strangely, Mitterrand père thought differently and had his problems. Writes Mitterrand: "When a man went to Mass but refused to associate himself with the arrogance...
...pepper below-the-salt potshots at Tess and Sam's splintering love life. The evening's high spot consists of Tess and a humble housewife (Marilyn Cooper) agreeing that The Grass Is Always Greener - a lowlife, high-life duet. Cooper makes this sequence as tart as vinegar and twice as puckish...