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...Indeed the talented homosexual's role as an outsider, far from disqualifying him from commenting on life, may often sharpen his insight and esthetic sensibility. From Sappho to Colette to Oscar Wilde and James Baldwin, homosexual authors have memorably celebrated love?and not always in homosexual terms. For example, W. H. Auden's Lullaby?"Lay your sleeping head, my love/Human on my faithless arm"?must rank as one of the 20th century's most exquisite love lyrics...
...year old this month, the Times is a unique statewide paper that tirelessly harasses would-be wreckers of Maine's environment. The attack is mounted by two Yale graduates, Editor John N. Cole. 46, and Publisher Peter W. Cox, 32, who raised $100,000 to pay for offset printing, two full-time reporters and a rented building in the hamlet of Topsham. Cole quit an incipient gray-flannel career in Manhattan to become a commercial fisherman, later edited several Maine newspapers. Cox is the son of Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry...
Terribly Intuitive. Coca-Cola officials, caught unprepared by the ban, worked round the clock, preparing advertising copy and arranging to start production of a saccharin-sweetened syrup for Fresca, which will contain only two calories in eight ounces. "This was a jumping joint," says Charles W. Adams, senior vice president. "We got a lot of printers up in the middle of the night." PepsiCo, which began marketing a new Diet Pepsi the day the ban was announced, attributed its switch to a burst of altruism. Big ads in newspapers noted solemnly: the "Pepsi-Cola Company cannot in good conscience offer...
Harvard has just set another academic precedent by naming Robert W. Thomson, assistant professor of Classical Armenian, to the nation's first chair in Armenian Studies...
...three student members of the committee-Kirby B. Wilcox 70. Henry Doerr 72, and Richard W. Hausler 72-joined Wilson in denying that the committee was involved in political repression in the Berg case...