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...presidential suites, and breakfasts were served at 3:30 a.m. for Ahidjo and other Moslems in the group because they were observing the holy month of Ramadan, which requires fasting during daylight. Mrs. Meir, for the first time in Israel's history, ordered the entire Cabinet to abandon its sports-shirt informality and don black ties for a dinner in the visitors' honor...
...guesses that they really hold only $150 million in cash and securities. Most of their $8.2 billion in assets is tied up in unprofitable universities and other schools. However, he figures that they can keep solvent if they concentrate on more businesslike use of their skilled, dedicated manpower, and abandon such unprofitable pastimes as raising vegetables and selling fruitcakes...
...cannot abandon Winthrop House to the jocks too hastily, however, for it is the only House to offer a course in drama: "Hum 96v"--Society and Politics in Western Drama. Given by four tutors in the House, Hum 96v will work on a play (yet to be selected by the members of the course) as a class exercise and will eventually present it in the Loeb Ex in the spring. Hum 96v is one of the only courses for credit at Harvard which includes some practical work in the theatre. (The others are: George Hamlin's freshman seminar in acting...
...reconciliation as only half begun, and he has a point. The Bundestag, where his party has only a slim majority, has not yet ratified the nonaggression pacts with Warsaw and Moscow. Franz Josef Strauss, a power in the opposition Bavarian Christian Social Union, urged only last week that Brandt abandon his Ostpolitik and "return things to where they were...
...McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex; that, too, is killed...