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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pool or working out at paddleball or handball. If he can find a partner, he plays tennis, but he may soon run out of partners; in excellent trim (he weighs 175 Ibs., claims to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, but appears to be at least an inch shorter than that), he is a tough, agile player who gives no quarter. Saunaed, showered and stretched, Javits slides into his dark beige Mustang convertible (license plate MBJ-1 for his wife) and zips off to the Senate, whose own gym does not open until 10. By that time, Javits has usually...
...Brown's Win Anakawa and two Navy runners are the class of the sprint field. Jeff Huvelle is among a pack of quarter-milers who have turned in times in the vicinity of 48.5, and Dave McKeivey might also get a place in the 440. An enigma in the shorter races in Cornell's Bill Bruckel, who could win any two of the three, and might even try to triple...
...least two budget guidebooks that are more helpful than Frommer's. Norman D. Ford's All of Europe at Low Cost is a thorough, realistic guide to cutting corners as well as to good inexpensive hotels and restaurants on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Shorter, hipper and absolutely fresh is Let's Go, published by the Harvard Student Agencies. Intended primarily for students, Let's Go really swings through Europe. But in addition to being up on what's in, it offers excellent pointers on such things as wine-tasting tours...
...saying, James, 53, announced his intention to go back on active duty as a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. "The quicker more newspapers and more people give the President solid support, the shorter and less dangerously complicated the war will be. I believe that the United States was right about Viet Nam in 1954, right when President Kennedy increased our involvement, right when President Johnson did likewise, and right to commit, in the President's words, 'whatever it takes' to deny the Communists a military triumph there...
...what one tutor called "a three to one majority," the board backed a plan to give a senior a choice between writing a standard thesis and taking a seminar with a shorter essay...