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...suite, work was already under way on the conference's final communique. From 8 in the evening until 3 the next morning, ambassador-level drafters worked over five versions. The foreign ministers spent three more hours polishing it. Finally the heads of state, finding the language too stiff, gave it yet another going-over. The original drafts are covered with scrawls from Lyndon Johnson's heavy, felt-tipped black pen and more compact scratchings from his allies' ballpoints...
Hardin holds the course record over the longer version of Franklin Park. He knocked nearly a minute off the old mark three weeks ago against Cornell. But today he will be facing some stiff competition...
...Americans seem to repudiate stiff-backed reporters who blandly mouth the words, but on the other hand have all the time in the world to listen to a shirt-sleeved next-door neighbor like Cronkite. It would be interesting to see him some night speaking into an old carbon mike from a rickety desk, being televised from an old television camera of dubious condition, and reading from copy that is so red-penciled it's hardly legible. The bets are down that he could still get more across to his news-thirsty viewers than anybody else...
...Stiff Upper Quip...
Note-Takinq Subordinates. Growth of the shadow colleges, professors say, represents a reaction to the stiff formality of the conventional classroom, the aridity and irrelevance-in the student's view-of much of the official curriculum. As the manifesto of Princeton's experimental college puts it, "the teacher becomes the grade-dispensing authority and the student a note-taking subordinate...