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...Diego wants the convention except the people." President Nixon's favor has even caused a rift within the local G.O.P. A Republican county committeewoman threatened to seek a court injunction against the convention. Says Mrs. Virginia Taylor, one of 15 candidates for mayor: "Our priorities are all backward. It reminds me of the old Roman days. The people don't have enough to eat, they don't have health care, they don't have a lot of things. So give them a circus...
Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...
Meriwether's training methods have been unconventional, to say the least. He began by running up the 14 flights of his apartment building. Often he would run up the stairs in reverse-a sight that soon had neighbors asking who was the backward freak in the knee-length white coat? "It seemed like I'd always pass women returning home with the groceries," he recalls. Borrowing a pair of track shoes, he started working out late at night at a nearby outdoor track. He practiced alone in the dark with no coach, no blocks and no starter...
...results, abstracted from data collected by Gallup pollsters, indicate that Americans in large numbers feel that their country has slid backward during the past five years. Moreover, nearly one in every two Americans regards national tensions as grave enough to "lead to a real breakdown in this country." There is a spreading lack of faith in both the nation's leadership and its institutions; only a small minority dismiss the national unrest as "the work of radicals and troublemakers." A clear majority agrees that the U.S. must end the war in Viet Nam, even at the risk...
...attempted to steer the course of their Reunion onto a somewhat less frivolous route than might be expected. A crash course of seminars and panels has been organized to tell them where students are at and where administrators intend them to go. (Topics range from "Have We Moved Backward or Forward in 25 Years?", a Winthrop House discussion led by Physics professor Gerald Holton, to "The Spiraling Costs of Higher Education and How To Pay For It," by John Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty...