Word: washings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute is the Institute Advisory Committee which meets once or twice a year to see what is going on. The Committee consists of such luminaries as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), Jacqueline Onassis, Averill Harriman (D-N.Y.), Sen. John Cooper (R-Ken.), Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), Lord Harlech, Vernon Jordon of the Urban League. The Advisory Committee has little to do with the operations of the Institute and rarely criticizes its activities. The rationale for its existence seems obscure, but as May explained, "They're awise people...
...Peking. One can see Chinese workers playing cards under the street lights in Peking, something unheard of not long ago. Mao badges, Mao statues and the little Red Book of quotations are disappearing from many public places. In the past couple of months, too, Chinese have been able to wash down their noodles in the myriad noodle bars of Peking, Shanghai and Canton with draft beer, a popular practice that almost ceased during the Cultural Revolution. Most of the restaurants are packed, since for the Chinese eating and drinking are among the few entertainment alternatives to such pious homilies...
Since her arrival, Jo Harshbarger, a 15-year-old swimmer from Bellevue, Wash., has had only one reservation about coming to Munich. The dressing rooms at the swimming stadium are coed, she explains, and have individual dressing stalls, "but the sides are so small that the tall boys can look over." As for life at the Olympic Village, she says: "It's weird but really fantastic...
Robe Showing. William Douglas has no phone at his retreat in Goose-prairie, Wash.; so in a pinch, his secretary calls a neighbor who lives six miles away. When Douglas wants to call, he drives 40 miles to a roadside phone booth outside Yakima, Wash., drops in a dime and gets his office collect. Keeping contact with Thurgood Marshall also has its difficulties. In the Virgin Islands in July, he broke an ankle in a Jeep accident. Last summer he had appendicitis, and two summers ago he got pneumonia. "We have a regular routine here," says his secretary...
...Everyone thought we lost, but I was terrific," said Lawyer Boudin to his wife on the phone. He had just finished arguing the defense case before Justice Douglas in a small federal courtroom in Yakima, Wash., not far from Douglas' wilderness vacation retreat-and, as it later turned out, he had succeeded in persuading the Justice...