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...Manhattan this week, heavy moneymen and big sports figures are gathering at a secret dinner for Quarterback turned Congressman Jack Kemp. His four-minute segment about taxes on Cronkite's show last Wednesday jiggled hearts as far away as Illinois. "Charismatic," said a middle-aged elephant. Participants in the Republican Tidewater Conference in Easton, Md., say there was a Kennedy-like stir when Kemp strode...
...institutional anachronism, the fact remains that most women here do not think of themselves as attending Radcliffe College. Therefore, despite the smiling faces of women in Quad Houses and scenes of women doing everything from rowing to building snow sculptures, we realize that we are really viewing only a segment of Harvard. And it is not really even a segment, for slides of men, River Houses, and Harvard Square are almost as common as those of contented Quad women...
...statement also turns a deaf ear to the feelings of a large segment of the student body. That treatment, of course, comes as no surprise, yet in the wake of this week's large and peaceful demonstrations, some consideration and dialogue with those students would seem only fair. The uncommunicative and vaguely paranoid stance adopted by the University throughout this week shows that Harvard is both afraid of and unwilling to listen to its own no-longer-docile students...
What they did get out of the festival, though, was a two minute segment in the Woodstock movie which gave their very visual act national exposure and established their reputation as the original 50's revival band...
Maria Shriver has stumped for Uncle Ted Kennedy and Father Sargent Shriver, but these days she is wooing viewers, not voters. Maria, 22, is the assistant producer for a feature segment of the nightly news show on Philadelphia's KYW-TV. "I've tried to keep a low profile. I wanted to be accepted by my colleagues, to show them I could in fact work," says Maria, who graduated last spring from Washington's Georgetown University. She sees TV as a way of bringing social problems, like those in Appalachia and Watts, to public attention...