Word: von
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December 9--F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of freshman and master of Mather House, resigns after 30 years in the Harvard administration...
Some avoided the paradox, supported by progressive parents who dispelled the notion that a woman had to choose between a career and motherhood. Marina von Neumann Whitman, for example, credits her family's unspoken "assumption that anyone with talent could succeed" with her ability to persevere despite the "conflicting signals" at Radcliffe. Radcliffe gave a wonderful intellectual freedom as well as the expectation that we automatically had to be mothers. This we either didn't notice or took for granted." says Whitman, who was recently named vice president and chief economist of the General Motors Corporation after being a protessor...
...Munich widely regarded as Schmidt's heir apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll put his personal popularity rating eight points ahead of his opponent, silver-haired Richard von Weizsäcker, 61, the competent but colorless C.D.U. candidate who had come out squarely against the squatters...
...election results left Christian Democrat Von Weizsäcker just two seats short of a legislative majority, and he spent much of last week looking for a coalition partner. The Alternativen quickly refused, as did the S.P.D. That left the Free Democrats, who seemed reluctantly open to the idea. Explained Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the party leader: "Part of our national responsibility is to ensure stable government in Berlin...
...mistakes made on radio and television consisted largely of toilet jokes, but were nonetheless a great hit in the 1950s. Schafer was an avid self-promoter and something of a blooper himself, but he did have an ear for such things as the introduction by Radio Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms are a different fettle of kitsch. In the early 1900s the Rev. William Archibald...