New Right on a rampage rocks Republican unity
WASHINGTON views the New Right as a force tearing at GOP incumbents like John Anderson and Clifford Case. The piece argues the movement trivializes public debate focusing on prayers, wages, and sex issues, while praising some moderate Republicans and warning of political cost for both parties.
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Minnesota appoints Muriel Humphrey to Hubert Humphrey’s Senate seat
Governor Rudy Perpich selects Muriel Humphrey to fill the late Hubert Humphrey’s Senate post. The choice aims at continuity and honoring legacy while she insists she is her own person. Humphrey emphasizes she can help carry forward important legislative work and bring her own political experience to national service.
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Still Hope for Ireland Amid Northern Ireland Terrorism Decline
In 1977 violence in Northern Ireland fell with fewer deaths bombings and shootings. Roy Mason notes a turning tide aided by effective policing and public help to bring criminals to justice. Continued progress in 1978 will face political hurdles requiring compromise and understanding from all sides. The text closes with a biblical quote.
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Northern Ireland
Roy Mason
Britain
Letters on furnaces and neighborly help amid blizzard
Readers share experiences from the Jan. 30 furnace carbon monoxide scare, praise for helpful service and fuel efficiency tips, thanks to Cordell and Darlene Downing and hospital staff, and commend neighbors Connie and Neil Back for clearing roads and assisting neighbors during the big local blizzard.
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The Curse of Open Admissions Debate in Higher Ed
George F. Will reviews Theodore Gross on City College of New York open admissions begun in 1970. He notes literacy gaps and shifting curricula, with ethnic studies and liberalism's costs cited. The piece argues New York's financial crisis exposed flaws in universal admission policy.
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Jeffrey Hart in Switzerland on leave and ski trip
Jeffrey Hart reports being on leave at Dartmouth during the winter term and plans a family trip to Gstaad, Switzerland for skiing and finalizing his book on Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A Swiss 747 jumbo jet scene unfolds within the narrative.
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Gstaad
Switzerland
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Swiss State of Mind and Old England Reflections
The narrator compares Swiss efficiency and mindset with Chilean upheaval, recalls a Santiago crisis, and imagines an 800 percent Chilean inflation. Flying over Newfoundland, they reminisce about England’s ancient, musty grandeur and Dickensian atmosphere, yearning for light to dispel old interiors.
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Newfoundland
Europe
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Swiss efficiency and romance in a modern Swiss state
A reader reflects on Switzerland as a stable, bourgeois modern state with a strong economy and tradition binding modern tech and past mores. He compares it to Seattle in European terms, noting currency, governance, and cultural touches like the popular music of Pau Burkhard and Eddie Fisher’s 1953 hit Oh My Papa.
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