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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quarterback is traditionally the glamor position, but the glamor has yet to descend on Zimmerman--largely because Harvard has two sensational halfbacks from the Boston area who fill the sports columns more readily than an inexperienced foreigner from Columbus, Ohio...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Zimmerman Moves Harvard Attack Like A -!-!- Quarterback Should | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...formidable logistical problems had to be coped with. To house the conferees, the Phil ippine government planned to commandeer the gracious old Manila Hotel, flanking the bay-though Johnson and some of the other government chiefs may stay at their embassies. Caring for the 1,000 newsmen expected to descend on Manila is an even more complicated matter, as Washington belatedly realized when it came to the task of ac commodating the 200 journalists who will cover Johnson's entire tour. Hastily the White House sent summonses for help to two former White House press secretaries-James Hagerty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Pacific Mission | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Furthermore, Hilles's location should relieve Harvard men of what seems to have been their chief grounds for barring Cliffies: the fear that the girls, like locusts, will descend at 9 p.m. to pick reserve book shelves clean. It would be a rare Cliffies who would choose to trudge to Lamont just to get a book when a much more attractive building sat just a few steps outside her door. Nor would Cliffies be likely to brave the snows of January reading period to crowd the boys out of their accustomed carrels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keep the Girls in Lamont | 10/6/1966 | See Source »

...some extent, of course, L.BJ. has fallen victim to the mid-term doldrums that descend on most Presidents. He has also, doubtless, been hurt by a variety of troubles-the Viet Nam war, rising prices, big-city Negro riots-that are only partially of his making, if at all. He suffers nonetheless from a unique and painful handicap that Washington observers have come to call "the personality problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Affection Gap | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Stuft Shirt, Newport Beach, Calif. Local divers descend 200 ft. for abalone, which is pounded, dipped in egg, sauteed in butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The East: TWENTY-TWO RESTAURANTS WELL WORTH THE TRIP | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

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