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Both deButts and Bailey attribute the improvements in part to the unflagging campaign of the Dramat and in part to the cooperation of the associate dean--Jonathan Miller this year and his predecessor, Howard Stein--as well as Dramat supporters within the graduate school. "There were a lot of people in the drama school who worked hard for us," Bailey says. "Brustein was not one of them...
...Bilmes' predecessor, Mike Circone '79, says that there will not be that great a change, but Bilmes' "dynamic qualities" and the Review's financial progress will allow an all-around expansion of the Review...
...most enjoyable sections is the etiquette and cook book collection. The library does not buy any of these books--all are donations. Julia Child, for example, gives to the Schlesinger many of the books she receives as gifts, and will probably bequeath her personal collection. Barbara Solomon, King's predecessor as director of the library, persuaded Widener to donate to Schlesinger its sundry etiquette books. Some useful bits of information contained in the older books include handling servants and curing a husband's baldness...
...leadership in both houses now looks forward with dread to the 96th Congress, which is likely to be even more unmanageable than its predecessor, the 95th. The new members, like the electorate that chose them, will be hearing the disco beat and doing their own thing...
Thad Cochran, 40, the first Republican Senator from Mississippi since 1881, is as rigidly conservative as his Democratic predecessor, six-term Senator James Eastland. In three terms as a Congressman, Cochran ran up a 95% voting approval rating from the American Conservative Union and a zero approval rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Cochran has a boyish charm and is an easygoing, relaxed campaigner. He has consistently drawn votes from both parties and run up increasingly large winning margins (as high as 78%) in his congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic...