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...Harvard discontinued its annual request for student delegates to the committee, but renewed the offer when the Faculty Council reactivated...
...salted with luminaries like Treasury Secretary James Baker: "How sweet it is to return to a 50-49 Senate victory for spending restraint and no tax increase!" He insisted that if zero real growth in military spending is inadequate to protect the national security, "I will not hesitate to request, and the Senate leaders have assured me that they will consider, supplemental funding." Said Reagan: "This was the only serious deficit-reduction package that could pass the Senate...
...Faculty to postpone the convening of the CRR until the fall, when they will be able to consider more carefully the issues surrounding the legitimacy of the committee and when they have time to carry out proper elections of students delegate to the CRR. We support this request. We recommend that the CRR postpone its meeting until next fall, when it can convene as a student-Faculty committee, not a Faculty monolith...
...letter is not a boycott--it is a request for more time," said Currier House Committee Chairman Dcborah Ramirez...
...this stuttering, bewildered figure who complies with any request: "That's better that's better, Little Gloria--only smile, please, smile smile smile smile!" Later she becomes pathetically grateful for romantic attention. Some adolescent scenes might have been snipped from a Philip Barry comedy: when 16-year-old Gloria develops a crush on a neighbor, an aunt informs her, "You can't marry him--because if you did, why--well--your name would be--Smith--wouldn't it? You'd be--MRS. SMITH!" The sobbing girl is consoled by her grandmother: "Maybe he could call himself Smythe--wouldn't that...