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...those who contend that "Radcliffe is only the figment of the imagination of its alumnae," but for a growing number, the process of change in Radcliffe over the past two years has molded something clearly distinguishable from what Harvard has to offer, and in many instances, clearly preferable. "The warmth and high degree of communication among students and administration at Radcliffe is a thing unheard of at Harvard," observes one Radcliffe senior...
Wiesner greeted the press with an air of informality and warmth usually missing at such high-powered affairs. While photographers scurried at his feet, he smiled and joked, blowing long streams of smoke rings over their heads...
...sinks onto the cluttered couch of gold brocade, dropping a leather jacket on the floor beside him. He squints. His cold, blue eyes do battle with the yellow afternoon sun that streams through the foggy windows before him. He stretches, his tall, slim body, stretching in the warmth like a lithe, tense cat. His beard is cropped close, ash-blond, almost grey in the translucent light, and blends, quite unostentatiously, with his shaggily trimmed hair. His eyebrows-enormous tensile spans that arch across his brow-seem to be all that is holding him together, so much so that you forget...
...little boxes in which people have always lived in the Western world." Gary Miller, vice president of Tension Structures, a Michigan dome-building firm, points out that circular living is not new. "Indians and Eskimos used it for centuries. People like circular things because they give a feeling of warmth and friendliness. Because they're less formal than square walls, which are esthetically cold, dome houses are appropriate for our informal times...
Congress appeared in no hurry to man the barricades. Personally, the President was received with great warmth, though the speech-perhaps because of its vast advance publicity buildup-was the most coolly received State of the Union message in 20 years. Still, the Democratically controlled 92nd is the only Congress this President has, and he asked a great deal...