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...hard at it, Symington has managed in recent months to improve his performance as a speechmaker. He still flops sometimes, but in New Castle last week, speaking without notes, he got himself across, livening his talk with touches of humor and personal history that rarely show up in his written speeches. Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows what...
Morocco-born Pesquet, an unstable and bizarre fellow, was hardly a man whose word was to be preferred to Mitterrand's, except for one fact: nine hours before the attack, he said, he had written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to himself, care of general delivery. When police collected the letter from the post office, they found that it did indeed describe the attack correctly, even pinpointed the spot at which Mitterrand had abandoned his car after the shooting...
Senator Russell Long from cane-growing Louisiana, who will have a powerful voice when the next quotas are written, says : "I don't think we should be favoring a country that is practically waging war on us." But, North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, whose Agriculture Committee will initiate the law, plans to try to put over an extension of present quotas for the "probationary" period of one year...
There are rumors that a major study is in prospect, one comparable in scope to the Redbook. If such a report is written, and approved by the Faculty, perhaps General Education will experience a rebirth of interest and participation. But the present temper of the Faculty is so disposed toward special study and specialization that it is doubtful that a new report which created a program as broad and diffuse as General Education would be approved...
...social aspects, with grades producing the major impetus for learning. But on the Sarah Lawrence campus, there is ample evidence of intellectual activity. In the dining hall that serves Sarah Lawrence's 400 students, conversations hew to the intellectual rather than the social. This year's freshman play, written by students, is a satire on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," a striking contrast to the fraternity-sorority skits that are the rule on many of the nation's campuses...