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What Shuman can claim overwhelming credit for is the defeat of the 1963 nationwide wheat referendum, which shook the Kennedy Administration to its socks. It was the Gettysburg of the war between farmer and bureaucrat-and Shuman was its General Meade. The referendum's Robert E. Lee was Willard Cochrane, then Freeman's director of agricultural economics, a tough-minded theoretician whose ideas proved politically unacceptable...
...GETTYSBURG, PA., Summer Theater: The Playboy of the Western World is a timid young Irishman whose moments of rebellion earn him first adulation and then scorn. John Synge's 40-year-old comedy remains an ironic and telling tale...
...long-faced historian, I with my sons have participated in battle re-enactments over the past four years [April 16]. Vicarious though the experience may have been, we can begin to appreciate what Bruce Catton is writing about. We have stood on the heights at Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg and watched the battle flags advance over the hallowed ground. Forgive us if we do not feel that we were desecrating the memory of our dead any more than those who re-enact the Passion play desecrate the name of the Lord...
Yovicsin has had the condition since was a student at Gettysburg College years ago. It is thought that the may have been the result of a injury he sustained there...
...escorted the Yameogos up the stairs and into the memorial. There they paused, as Yameogo caught his first glimpse of the massive, brooding figure. "Formidable! Formidable!," he whispered in French. On the trip back to Blair House, Yameogo and Johnson quoted to each other passages from Lincoln's Gettysburg and second inaugural addresses. Last week the President also...