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...dinner of the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League to receive the Legacy Award for his "distinguished contribution to the enrichment of our democratic heritage." Lyndon took that public opportunity to answer critics who complain that his preoccupation with preserving a U.S. consensus tends to preclude bold presidential action...
...years of fire and faith in this 20th century," he said, "our diverse peoples have forged together a consensus such as we have not known before -a consensus on our national purposes, our national policies and the principles to guide them both. Thoughtful men want to know-are we entering an era when consensus will become an end in itself? Will we substitute consensus for challenge? Will a devotion to agreement keep us from those tasks that are disagreeable? Tonight, for myself, I turn back to the ancient Scriptures for the answer: "He that observeth the wind shall...
...abolished, and 2) be replaced by the HUC and the HPC?" Unfortunately, they only provided space for one answer, YES or NO. Assuming HCUA members are intelligent enough to realize this inconsistency, they clearly chose to renege on a previous promise to allow the students to express a meaningful consensus on the future of student government at Harvard. We can only hope that the efforts of the study committee that produced the new proposal will not be wasted, and that we will all have the opportunity to make our opinion known--precisely. Mike Baller...
Radiated Force. There is a feeling that, as Harvard Historian Henry S. Hughes puts it, today's world has "little tolerance of greatness," and that in an era of computers, expert teams and government by consensus, the Churchillian kind of leadership may never again assert itself. But one of Churchill's greatest contemporaries, Konrad Adenauer, 89, does not share that fear. "What makes a statesman great?" he asks. "He needs first of all a clear conception of what is possible. Then he needs a clear conception of what he wants. Finally, a great leader must have the power...
...personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve, and though he rarely gabs about Perry Mason (preferring to listen to G.I. gripes), the gunner who flew with him gives the consensus: "Ray Burr is one helluva fine...