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Edward Hume '77, a Mather House resident, said yesterday, "From what I observed, he seemed to get along with a large number of students. He wasn't a stiff, cold, administrative sort. He was a very personable...
...concocted by Daley's then-press secretary (since convicted), was to show academic types that the mayor of America's second largest city used more than "des, dems and dose" when he spoke. Daley gave a dull, technical, very formal speech and questions followed--mostly hostile ones,. Suddenly, the stiff, unnatural Richard Daley gave way to the mayor millions of Chicagoans worshipped. Malapropisms and Chicagoese returned--his blunt words chopped through the air. A student charged bossism. The answer to that was easy. "You either run the party or the party runs you," the mayor said...
...known as the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Last month the SSRC declared a ban on all Christmas celebrations to commemorate those who died in June. When student colleagues in Cape Town tried to emulate the SSRC by demanding a boycott of Christmas holiday work, their efforts met with stiff resistance from migrant workers and led to the latest fratricidal violence...
Scattered Bursts. With complaints streaming in from maritime, aeronautic and amateur radio operators, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and European governments have dispatched stiff protests. Belatedly, the Russians concede that their "experiments" could "cause interference of short duration to radio facilities...
Morris E. Mentum does not play for the Harvard hockey team; he doesn't even attend school in Cambridge. But Saturday afternoon he, like Bob Gamere, a Teleseven camera crew and a packed crowd obviously in search of some excitement and already bored stiff by reading period, was in Watson Rink as the Crimson skaters made off with a big one, 4-3, against a good but not great Brown outfit...