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...people." "I Know Where to Go." Buckley lives by loyalty. He distrusts anyone who thinks politics has anything to do with ideals or abstractions. He dismisses fellow Democrats Adlai Stevenson ("a prima donna"), Estes Kefauver ("a lulu"), and such reformers as Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman ("Give them an inch and they'll take a mile...
Ohirl's damn-the-torpedoes style of broad jumping is a joy to watch; he crashes into the pit practically head first, to get every last inch out of his leap...
...Harvard and Radcliffe inch closer together, the 'Cliffe announced that Harvard's own Byron Stookey Jr. '57, director of the freshman seminar program, will assist President Bunting on general plans for the new fourth House and other administrative problems at Radcliffe. Like Arthur D. Trottenberg--assistant dean at Harvard and administrative vice-president at Radcliffe--Stookey will divide his time between the two institutions...
Since laser light can be concentrated into a thin beam that barely spreads out at all, Professor Louis Smullin and Dr. Giorgio Fiocco, the M.I.T. engineers who performed the experiment, estimate that the laser's light diverged only about two-thirds of an inch for each mile of its quarter-million-mile journey to the moon. When it reached the moon's mountains, the laser beam lighted faintly a circular area only two miles in diameter...
Tall, trim, with grey hair, steely blue eyes and a strong nose and chin, Harkins looks every inch the professional soldier. Under him serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces...