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West Pointer General Nathan F. Twining, 59, Air Force Chief of Staff and soon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took time off from a top-level conference at Quantico, Va., got photographed with the commandant of Marine Corps Schools there, Lieut. General Merrill B. Twining, 54, his seldom-publicized, Annapolis-educated kid brother...
...charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan Shefferman. The one noticeable ripple in Beck Junior's sea of silence came when John McClellan asked him if he was married. After a nervous giggle and a consultation with his counsel. Beck squeaked no and had another giggle...
...After such knowledge, what forgiveness?'' asked T. S. Eliot as he entered the dry season of 1920. At about the same time, another American writer who devoted his life to illuminating this bleakly ruthless question was growing up. Manhattan-born Nathan Weinstein. who later went by the name of Nathanael West, was a knowledgeable man, and nothing he knew induced him to forgive anything. In his brief life (he died* in 1940, aged 37), West wrote only four brief novels, but they were a full life's work. He wrote during that great interlude of negation...
...American optimism of the Horatio Alger type. The book tells of Lemuel Pitkin, who was born in a "humble dwelling much the worse for wear . . . owing to the straitened circumstances of the little family." Like Candide. Lemuel lives out the advice of a philosopher. His is the creed of Nathan "Shagpoke" Whipple, president of the Rat River National Bank and former President of the U.S. In the course of behaving well, e.g., rescuing girls with rich fathers from bolting horses, Lemuel goes to jail, loses a leg, all his teeth and an eye, is robbed of his savings...
President Nathan M. Pusey and Dean McGeorge Bundy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will address the graduates...