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...Crimson, for fairly obvious reasons, can be a lot more interesting than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux par that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than this; as it is easy to see, it is no official organ for anything...
...sober, deadly earnest, self-effacing man with a blue steel brain, Ted Sorensen is an instinctive political stage manager. He assiduously avoids personal publicity and attributed quotations, is personally abstemious,* and reserves his quiet sense of humor for his rare off-duty hours. Ruffled politicians accuse him of ruthlessness; disgruntled underlings say he is a martinet; the press finds him invariably helpful. His fascination with politics is complete, and he is devoted to the Kennedy cause. As the special counsel to the new President, Ted Sorensen will be as close to the heart of the new Administration...
...grandfathers ruled: Saloonkeeper Pat Kennedy, the leader of East Boston's First Ward, and a state representative and state senator to boot; John Francis ("Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, twice the mayor of Boston and a U.S. Congressman, the only man in town who could sing Sweet Adeline sober and get away with it. (It was a proud Honey Fitz who at 83 climbed upon a table and danced a merry jig and sang Sweet Adeline when his grandson Jack won his first term in the Congress...
...sober, intelligent administrators are supported by a 40-to-11 parliamentary majority and an economy that provides Asia's second highest per capita income ($400). They are hopeful that by the time their first term is up in 1964, they can win membership in the Malayan Federation-not by revolutionary exertions but by evolutionary responsibility...
...declaring their delight in the fact that express trains often made unscheduled stops of 15 minutes or more because the delays give them a chance to get out and perform calisthenics. "After the exercises," women of Chekiang province were quoted, "our limbs feel more relaxed and our brain more sober...