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Resigning his post an hour before he entered the guilty plea, Chacharis ended a political career that at one time seemed likely to take him from the sooty back rooms of Gary into greener pastures-almost any pastures being greener than Gary's. A politician who was active on the Kennedy campaign banquet circuit-and who brought in nearly 70% of Gary's vote for Jack Kennedy-Chacharis was once invited to the White House to meet Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis. For a while, the dream of chubby George Chacharis to return to his native Greece...
...harshness of the game should remit when circumstances show that a particular thesis will of necessity be very unprofitable indeed. All that should be asked is that a student present good reasons for his desertion; and his thesis advisor and Head Tutor may then turn him out to another, greener, pasture of inquiry. In any case, Faculty policy should aim at relaxing the bonds of the departments through the departments themselves. Yesterday indicated that fortunately or not, they still hold the real authority over an undergraduate's career...
...contract, one has know attractive and promising men who end college with scarcely a splash and certainly without glitter after three years when a fourth year might have allowed them to share the triumphs and excitements of their friends. Such men may keep greener memories of school than of college and, to the degree that they have failed to make something positive of college, have been habituated to gray expectations...
...anger. "Incredibly inadequate," cried U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, chief of the union's G.M. department. Stalking out of the Chrysler meeting, U.A.W. Vice President Norman Matthews, who heads both the union's Chrysler and American Motors departments, snapped: "I'm going where the grass is greener." He headed for American Motors...
UNIVERSITY: The current double jeopardy continues uncomfortably: THE GRASS IS GREENER, with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr; NEXT TO NO TIME, about which we will say (mercifully) next to nothing...