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LAST SPRING, when students took over buildings at Columbia and other colleges and universities around the country, the United States Congress was outraged. "Infraction of university rules," Representative Louis C. Wyman (R-N.H.) said in May on the House floor, "has assumed disturbing proportions in recent months." He proposed--and the House overwhelmingly passed his proposal--to deny federal funds--in that case, National Science Foundation and Office of Education grants, loans, and scholarships--to students who "refuse to obey a lawful order of university authorities...
...serious nature" and actually "contributed to substantial disruption of an institution's administration," whereas the original House form would have cut off the funds without a hearing or intervention by college officials), but the measures passed last week are still remarkably close to those initially asked for by Wyman in his impassioned House speech...
...broke into print three years ago with a brace of unsolicited interviews in the New York Times and the late Herald Tribune's New York Magazine. Now the assignments threaten to inundate him: last week a treatment of Jean Seberg in the Times; next month interviews with Jane Wyman, Katharine Ross, Harper's Bazaar Editor China Machado; a reminiscence on Carson McCullers (an old personal friend); a film for Melina Mercouri (a new personal friend); reviews and TV appearances; and, on the side, two novels abuilding. Thus it was only by dint of diligent spadework and interminable waiting...
Eugene has his Mary, Hubert his Nancy, Dick has Tricia and Julie-yet those campaigning daughters are raw rookies compared with the girl stumping for California's Governor. Maureen Reagan, 27, Ronnie's daughter by his first marriage to Jane Wyman, has been on the hustings for nearly a decade and raps out a line conservative enough to leave her dad in left field. Maureen has toured for the ultra-rightist Constitutional Alliance, recorded folk songs (sample lyrics: "If you fight and your belief is right You'll never let freedom die"), and visited more than...
...preserve the honor, integrity and dignity of the office of the presidency" and considered his action a grand, even noble gesture for the sake of the nation. "I doubt if any single speech in history has so abruptly turned feelings around on one man," said California Democratic Committeeman Eugene Wyman. "He really defused the hatred toward...