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...that serves as their office, Guy and Holt have been busy striving to capture their sixth Miss USA crown. As the partners supervised fittings of Kuehne and Nelson in Guyrex-designed evening gowns, the two consultants delivered pointers and pep talks. For Kuehne, they had prescribed voice exercises to correct her high pitch and slight slur. To Nelson, who at 5 ft. 6 in. and 105 lbs. is too slim, they gave a gentle admonition to keep to daily milk shakes and peanut butter...
Still, most council members are not overly concerned. They say they do not expect the issue to come up again, and feel they have proved themselves correct...
...writing to correct an error in your article about the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) ["New RUS Officers Plan Focus on Women's Center," Feb. 10]. We would like to clarify that while RUS has an active membership of 50, all women undergraduates are automatically members...
...Union. Then imagine, Bailey continued, that the insurrectionists, supported and financed by Mexico and other communist states in Latin America, obstruct communications; attack civilians and police with stones and fire bombs; kill former Mexicans holding U.S. Government jobs ("collaborators"); and then begin a tax revolt. Now you have the correct analogy. Would the U.S., like Israel, then send in the Army? Of course...
David Plotz had an excellent point to make in his February 5 opinion piece titled "Politically Correct' Thought Control." PC ideology, as a prescriptive thought process that turns students into self-righteous automatons, is as repulsive and abhorrent to the conscious and thinking individual as reactionary conservatism or his own self-defined "PW" (politically wrong) ideology. Unfortunately, Plotz's cry of "PC totalitarianism" reads as an attempt to shut up the voice of traditionally oppressed groups with accusations of reverse discrimination. Systematically bombasting the grievances of the underclass, his is a clever and insidious tactic which, like...