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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Matter of Teleguidance. Challenged to explain Pesquet's letter, Mitterrand began to hedge. He had, he admitted, met Pesquet twice in the days immediately preceding the attack, but the shooting itself, he insisted, was no fake. According to Mitterrand's new version, Pesquet had appeared one afternoon with the story that he had been assigned by a rightist underground organization to murder Mitterrand, but did not have the heart to do it; instead, Pesquet proposed that "for safety's sake" Mitterrand start using the roundabout route home that he had followed on the night of the shooting...
...English Department is considering tightening foreign language requirements for graduate study, according to a recent letter sent to the Board of Tutors by Walter J. Bate, Chairman of the English Department...
...Redbook--General Education in a Free Society--which was the foundation of the original General Education proposal is virtually a dead letter. Professor David E. Owen, ex-Chairman of the General Education Committee, admits, "One can hardly disguise the fact that there has been departure from the Redbook." Professor Reuben A. Brower, who teaches Humanities 6, puts the matter more strongly: "I remember how the Redbook was cited right and left six years ago, but nobody mentions it now.... Just by quietly not talking about the Redbook, a lot of good things get done...
...addition to these two specific difficulties, there is growing resentment of the special status enjoyed by History. As long as the Redbook remained the guiding principle of the program, the dominance of one field could be explained. But with the Redbook virtually a dead letter, this preferred status is an additional irritant. The initial ranks of those who did not support the Redbook have been swelled by those who think that the Redbook is simply being used as an excuse for perpetuating the dominance of the History department...