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Lyndon's father, Sam Ealy Johnson Jr., wrote his own chapter of the kind that gives life to Texas legend. Sixteen years ago, when he lay dying in an Austin hospital, he said to Lyndon: "Get my britches. I'm going home." Lyndon protested. Johnson City, he said, could not provide the necessary medical personnel and equipment that the old man required. Replied his father: "I'm going home where they know when you're sick and they care when...
Bucky is indebted to S.I.U. for providing him with both a home base and a springboard, and Fuller's fame has helped repay the debt, Sixteen years ago, there were only 3,013 students on the Carbondale campus: today there are no fewer than 18,201 students and a faculty of 1,154. And the university has just been awarded a $10 million, three-year space project, which Bucky will head...
...speech opening the New York World's Fair, Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests sarcastically that Senator Goldwater might like to buy up the armed forces himself and use them "to subjugate the emerging nations of Asia and Africa." Apparently missing the sarcasm, sixteen Asian and African nations close their pavilions and withdraw their delegations...
Dean Sert reveals plans for the tenth House: a sixteen-story windowless inverted pyramid "gaily painted with colors reflecting the spirit of our times." Refuting charges of structural instability, Sert points out that "even the ancients knew the triangle was the most stable geometric form, and my pyramid will contain many triangles...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last night announced the election of the Senior Sixteen. They are: Millard H. Alexander, of Quincy House and Brookline, Mass., in, chemistry and physics; David M. Bear, of Quincy House and Akroa, Ohio, social relations; David S. Forman, of Dunster House and Huntington Woods, Mich., psychology; Donald A. Goldmann, of Winthrop House and Trenton, N.J., history; Ronald J. Greene, of Quincy House and Omaha, Neb., government; Richard H. Grossman, of Lowell House and Beverly Hills, Calif., English; William D. Hart III, of Kirkland House and Merriam, Kansas, philosophy; and Leslie Lessinger, of Lowell House...