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...Patricia's ordeal dragged through a second week, life at the Hearsts' $300,000 cream-colored stucco mansion in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough took on a grim order. The 15 rooms, many of them decorated with antiques from the fabled San Simeon mansion of Patricia's grandfather William Randolph Hearst, were filled with agonized friends and family. Among them were Patricia's four sisters and her fiance Stephen Weed, 26, who had been badly beaten by the kidnapers. FBI agents set up a command center in the library, which was crammed with six telephones on the chance that...
...expressed some of my ambivalence as a hatred for Harvard, an institution I saw as a grim and sinister counterfeit of liberal values. Henry A. Kissinger '50 helped plan the policies which brought more long years of war to Indochina. There is no getting around it; the man should be tried as a war criminal in the name of every blind and dead little boy and girl in all of Vietnam and Cambodia. Harvard held Kissinger's chair in the Government Department open for him even as Indochina glowed with burning napalm fire; this University's values had retreated...
...South Vietnamese, however, the future is likely to be as grim as the past. Last week former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird glumly predicted: 'The war in Southeast Asia will go on for perhaps another 20 years. It has gone on for 30 years already...
...This is a very grim and unfortunate thing that no one on this campus wanted," said Southern Illinois University President David R. Derge. It is just about the only statement that has been made recently on the Carbondale, Ill., campus with which everyone can agree. The event that Derge referred to: as a result of a budget cut, the university fired 104 faculty and staff members and then, in a move that at first glance seemed to add insult to injury, immediately filed a class-action suit against six of the dismissed teachers...
...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen