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...onda? That question, or its English equivalent--What's going on?--is being asked throughout Mexico, in Washington and on Wall Street. Is the Mexican government at war or peace with rebels in the southern state of Chiapas? Does the governing party's electoral defeat in Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara, and in the state of Jalisco portend a loss of political control or a heartening turn toward genuine democracy--or maybe both? Most important, does Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, less than three months into his six-year term, have a consistent strategy for dealing with...
...recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column. He also wishes "happy birthday" in print to entertainment figures, as in the March 10 greeting to former Studio Executive Newton ("Red") Jacobs, a leader in civic causes. That salutation was sadly underinformed. Jacobs died...
Graduate Women in History, the group that organized the event said the large turnouts at lectures and events this week showed a great interest in women's history. But I onda Schiebinger, one of the organizers, warned that Harvard was again "lagging behind" in its support for women's issues...
...Potsdam the state school for officers' daughters receives sensitive, 14-year-old Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele). The principal (Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers...
...crack North Carolina team. . . . Richard Norris Williams II, national champion in 1914 and 1916, whose tennis is still beautiful to behold, had a good day against young Marco Hecht-8-6, 6-4, 6-4. . . . Frankie Parker, the Milwaukee 16-year-old, put out a wily Japanese, Sadakaza Onda...