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Coolidge Hall looks innocuous enough from the outside. Located about two blocks past Memorial Hall, 1737 Cambridge Street has little to distinguish it from neighboring structures other than a long concrete ramp leading to its glass doors. But this perception changes quickly once the visitor ventures inside, in the lobby, students and faculty banter in several languages. Conversations invariably produce car-catching phrases like "last time I spoke to Helmut Schmidt" and "I'll ask Lopez portillo when I see him next week. "The seminar rooms are filled: in one, foreign dignitary discuses the potential for peace in the Middle...
...this country," a reference to the mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 in which the deadly potion was a soft drink laced with cyanide. After Kirkland made the characterization at the AFL-CIO's executive council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Vice President George Bush, a visitor at the session, accused him of "groping for a headline...
...genuinely accept peace with Israel? That was a key question for the Foreign Minister of a country in which Jews mingled with Arabs, and which yet needed a visitor from 6,000 miles away to explain the psychology of Arab nations. Was Israel gaining acceptance by its retreat, or starting a process of weakening itself? Israel had no choice; it could not risk not making the experiment, for the Jewish state would consume its moral substance if it sought to rest its existence on naked force...
Stanford accepts the new State Department restrictions, Lieberman said, and plans in "treat Umnov as we would any other foreign visitor." He added that this is the first time Stanford has had difficulties with the visit of a foreign scholar...
...reunion of The Group that brought the prodigal daughter back from Paris to her alma mater, but an invitation to celebrate her 70th birthday by being Vassar's first "Distinguished Visitor." Mary McCarthy, class of '33, the ironical Athena of American letters (The Stones of Florence, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, Cannibals and Missionaries) returned to the scene of her biting 1963 bestseller about the travails of eight alumnae. She has always thought Vassar had good teachers, it was the students she objected to. In the 1950s she described them as a "pretty, polite, docile and serene mass...