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...refusing to allow a "land bridge" for trucks to enter Cambodia from Thailand with supplies. A bipartisan group of 68 House members urged Carter to set up a joint airlift with the Soviet Union. The plan was first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck and get shot in the process rather than sit back and have it on my conscience that I did nothing to stop a second holocaust" Hesburgh also suggested that the U.S. withhold grain sales to the Soviet Union...
...games and fraternity parties-the occasions that have always called forth prodigious assaults on the bottle. The dedicated drinkers, though, generally quaff quietly off campus, making the rounds of such traditional hangouts as The Pub on State Street in Madison, Wis., or the Goose's Nest on Notre Dame Avenue in South Bend, Ind., or Quantrill's Saloon on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, Kans. After learning from a survey of 500 schools that 80% believed their students needed more help in handling drink, the U.S. Brewers Association obligingly announced it would publish a quarterly On-Campus Review...
...Merely Mary Ann and so impressed George Bernard Shaw that he wrote Major Barbara with her in mind. After a 1910 farewell bow before weeping fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s by forming the fund-raising Met Opera Guild...
...Dame Helen L. Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and a visiting professor from Oxford University, said yesterday she will criticize the emphasis on personal experience in current literature when she delivers next month the first of her three Norton Lectures...
...oldest of seven Clasby children, Mike, graduated Harvard last year after a fine career with the varsity hockey team. Bobby, the third son and an All-American tackle in high school, gave up an early acceptance to Harvard for an admission to Notre Dame. Dick Sr. says his 6-ft. 5-in., 250-lb. son "always wanted to go to Notre Dame. Now he's there playing very well. He's made the traveling squad as a freshman...