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Jerry Williams vs. Avl Nelson. "The first" says the WCVB blurb, "in a series of exciting debates between Boston's most outstanding talkmasters." (Williams is a burly, middle-aged, old-school liberal; Nelson is a young, super ambitious libertarian.) But this will probably dissolve into a classic more-heat-than-light confrontation, especially considering the not very narrow topic of tonight's debate: "Does the 'System' work?" Ch. 5, 11 p.m. 1 hour...
...Walter Randall, '36, is the archetype of the old-school Harvard grad. Not a Philadelphian by birth but a fairly long-time resident in a wealthy hidden-away province, southwest of the city. Randall represents the interests of a small faction of older alumni interested in restoring some element of "clubbiness" to Philadelphian graduates. Randall sees the present club's chieftains--who do a great deal to mold the policies of the alumni in the city--as a looseknit, often too business-like group of younger turks who believe the club's only duty is soliciting new membership dues...
Lumen himself is an old-school radical and internationalist. He muckraked like Lincoln Steffens. During World War I he went to prison as a pacifist like Bertrand Russell, and later founded a progressive school for children. Even in his creaky 80s he flew to Biafra to organize relief for the starving...
Rising Professionalism. Except for a rising sense of professionalism, there is little that binds the new women politicians together. Baltimore City Councilwoman Barbara Mikulski, 38, is a feisty old-school campaigner who ran a tough but losing fight against Maryland's Republican Senator Charles Mathias. Janet Hayes edged out a retired police detective to become mayor of San Jose, a sprawling bedroom city south of San Francisco. She terrified the real estate developers, she says, by declaring, "Let's make San Jose better before we make it bigger." Mary Anne Krupsak, New York's new Lieutenant Governor...
...Old-school gamesmen that they are, the British make him a sporting proposition-money, false papers, a gun and as much of a head start as they can manage if he cares to make a despairing run for his life. It is an offer he cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...