Though he didn't get the top spot Drury seemed satisfied with his performance, which included Ives' "Concord Sonata" and Lew Karchin's "Fantasy II."

"I think I was playing about as well as I can play at this point," he said last week. "Technically, I brought off everything I could have."

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Career Opportunity: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts informs us via press release, that the state internship office still has 400 (count 'em, 400) volunteer positions currently on file. "There is still time for anyone seeking an internship for the fall," assures Peggy Tierney, education specialist for the internship office, in the October 9 press release.

And she adds: "Now that everyone's schedule is in order for the fall, an internship is in order for the fall, an internship is an excellent way to fill spare time productivity."

Those interested in the internships, which require ten to 15 hours weekly, may call the State House at 727-8688.

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Two comments on the death of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat come from Radcliffe officials who met the late leader.

Sadat, said President Horner in a statement released the day after the October 6 assassination, "was a man of principle who had the courage to stand up for what he believed in."

Horner, who visited Egypt in 1978, said she was "shocked by the violence of his death and mourn[s] the loss of a world leader in search of peace."

Now director of the Bunting Institute, Margaret McKenna met Sadat while a deputy counsel to former president Jimmy Carter.

"I first learned that President Sadat had been killed when I saw the news on the marquee at Harvard Square," she said. "My first thought was for the problems that his death will mean for peace in the world. But my second thought was about what a warm and human person he had been. He really went out of his way to know people. He was a very caring and concerned human being."

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Another person who had his mark in Mid-East affairs, former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, visited Harvard last week for a faculty luncheon at the Center for Jewish Studies.

In an interview with The Gazette, Rabin criticized statements by former U.S. presidents Ford and Carter urging direct talks with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and chided the Reagan administration for not doing all it could to further the negotiations between Egypt and Israel aimed at establishing autonomy for West Bank Palestinians.