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...gallop, Javits has been a Senator for nearly ten years. Thus, though that exalted station might once have seemed impossibly remote for a poor boy born in what Javits fondly describes as "the urban counterpart to a log cabin?a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize?a place on his party's 1968 presidential ticket...
Diversity & Verve. Vaster in size and more splendid in promise than any other form of community in man's history, the metropolitan complex is the epicenter and embodiment of American life. In its Promethean ambit of inter ests, its cultural diversity and kinetic verve, the city's heart sets the pace for the rest of the nation, and indeed much of the world. It is an unrivaled func tional framework for finance and busi ness, a rich lode of pleasure, a superb showcase for art, theater, music, fashion. At the same time, the "oceanic amplitude of these great...
Martin Bax, editor of the British magazine Ambit, will speak and read from his work at 4 p.m. today in the Adams House Junior Common Room. The program is sponsored by the Advocate...
Confronted by Shirley Temple and Hitler, Mickey Rooney and Mussolini, '39 emerged from four years at Harvard not only fully capable of playing one of Harvard's favorite sports, the riot, but also intensely responsive to events outside Cambridge and the ambit of college life...
...concern of the law-and "sin" as the concern of the Church. Law, he said, should still be invoked to protect and control those under 21 and "to protect the unwilling over that age," but the sin of homosexuality by consenting adults in private "should not come within the ambit...