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Reform forces will challenge most of the Cambridge Democratic ward committees on the election ballot today, in the hopes of creating community-based, issue-oriented ward committees...
Despite the intensity of a campaign of vilification by Soviet authorities, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, for years refused to discuss with foreigners the charges against him. His best-known works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) deal mainly with the victims of Stalinist terror. Last week, in a dramatic departure from his earlier reticence, Solzhenitsyn talked with two Western newsmen about his own precarious existence under an increasingly hostile regime. Said he: "A kind of forbidden contaminated zone has been created around my family...
...liability, there are strong moral arguments for speaking up. For one thing, the argument that "I was only following orders" does not have sufficient force. "Every employee who knows of a situation in his company that is detrimental to the public at large must disclose it," says A. Dudley Ward, a high official of the United Methodist Church. "He must first make sure if he is right. If he is, then he must be willing to give up his job to raise the question-to the highest authorities within the company and if necessary to the public. The Judeo-Christian...
...onetime Indiana farm boy who looks like an English teacher (which he was) and talks like a teetotaling church deacon (which he is). Wooden at 61 still stresses the coaching tenets he learned at Purdue under the late Ward ("Piggie") Lambert: "Get the players in the best of condition, and make them believe they are in better condition than our opponents, so they won't fold in the second half. Teach them to execute the fundamentals quickly but without hurrying. Get them to play as a team, always thinking of passing the ball before shooting...
Once your car is the way you want it, you start going to Vilem B. Haan, an accessory shop that is like a pet shop for cars. There you buy a brassiere for your car, padded plastic cups that fit over the car's nose to ward off bugs and tar. "We sell them by the ton," says a salesman. And beer mugs and beach towels with an insigne of your auto's make on them, air horns that play your favorite tune, wood and leather steering wheels, driving gloves, headers, roll bars. Jack Cassidy recently picked...