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...I.R.A. terrorist named James McDaid, 28, blew himself to bits while planting a bomb in Coventry, 15 miles east of Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce a government ban on the demonstration. The Birmingham bombs were apparently set off in cruel revenge...
Even most of the left-whig Peronista youth, who suspected Isabelita of being too conservative, are now at least temporarily willing to give her a chance...
Charles Gwathmey, 36. He is best known as the designer of university buildings like Whig Hall, the contemporary student center built into the burned-out shell of a building at Princeton, as well as private residences and beach houses. Within his profession, however, the North Carolina-born, Yale-educated architect is conspicuous for his innovative approach to high-density housing. "Low-cost housing is a social problem," he says, noting that lack of privacy is the chief shortcoming of most public apartment projects...
Shockley bounced back fast from his initial setback at Harvard. In December, the Whig-Cliosophic Society, a Princeton University debating club, set up a Shockley-Innis debate...
...Whig-Cliosophic Society has restricted attendance at the debate to Princeton students and faculty. Press coverage will be limited to the school's publications, the University Press Club and reporters specifically invited by Shockley or Innis. The Crimson will cover the debate...