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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...third in a field of three for the last Republican Senate nomination. His battered green Plymouth has rolled 63,000 miles into 20 of the state's 21 counties (v. five counties visited by Case in this campaign). In New Jersey supermarkets, Robert Morris has become as common a commodity as ripe eggplant. Bankrolled by New Jersey's platoon of wealthy, powerful ultraconservatives (among his top supporters: Johnson & Johnson Board Chairman Robert W. Johnson, Publicist James Selvage), Morris has blanketed the state with billboards and buttons, bought 392 one-minute radio spots a week. Incumbent Case...
...would simply restore military primacy to the nation with the most potent conventional armed forces. Staunchly convinced that Europe's future depends upon the close collaboration of France with Germany, he gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan little sympathy in his plea for a showdown in establishment of the Common Market...
This year Wesleyan decided to get bigger (doubling enrollment by 1970)-and yet "stay small." The goal set by Butterfield, once a canny star quarterback at Cornell: a large federation of small colleges, each with its own faculty and students devoted to a common field of study...
...Decorations. Best organized is the College of Public Affairs, which shifts all students to one of three common areas (economics, history, government) on a "trimester" basis. Each week they must write one paper, be prepared to defend it without warning before other students. Once a week they must also be prepared (from faculty-supplied reading lists, not textbooks) to discuss some general concept, such as the Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, they pursue their own dreams, from Russian literature to Oriental religion. As one boy puts it cheerfully: "We're trapped. We were just given a three-week vacation, which most...
...Schwartz's work can be duplicated and confirmed, it would mark a giant stride against a disease that now kills 12,000 Americans (most of them children) annually. But Dr. Schwartz agreed that the relationship of virus to disease in leukemia must be far more complex than in common illnesses such as smallpox, influenza, measles and polio; for one thing, leukemia is not infectious. Inherited susceptibility is essential, he believes, while hormones and X rays may be important controlling factors. So, he emphasized, a vaccine against human leukemia is still far in the future...