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...made good as a major leaguer, and proved himself as a man. Last week The Sporting News, baseball's trade paper, crowned him the rookie of the year. The Sporting News explained, carefully and a little grandiloquently, that it had made the choice solely on the basis of "stark baseball values." Wrote Editor J. G. Taylor Spink...
This week Marlboro College is ready to open its doors, officially on schedule, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The dirt road from Molly Stark Highway to Potash Hill needs a macadam surface. The college "laboratories"-war-surplus huts from an army air base-have not arrived...
...Thus we may say that man, in stark opposition to the righteous will of God, may destroy his civilization and life. This may be exactly the opposite of God's intention-if anthropomorphic language is at all adequate here. But in that event, God's sovereignty will not be abrogated. For in those very events, man can turn to Him in repentance and faith, and forgiveness and salvation will be real. Faith will see God coming in judgment, and will discern within His wrath His love...
Beneath such stark dedication, not much of common humanity is visible. Gromyko reads mostly books on economics, though he once admitted that he likes Lord Byron (because he had a "social consciousness"). Gromyko drinks little, eats moderately. He plays some chess, some volleyball. Muffled reports say that he collects stamps. His buxom wife, Lidiya. has borne him a son, Anatoli, 15, and a daughter, Emiliya, 9. Whatever time he can spare (which is not much), he spends with his family. The story goes that when a newsman once called his home, Gromyko's daughter answered the telephone. The newsman asked...
...into the half-mile-deep pit on the other side. But there is another, far more important reason. The closed gate suddenly brings the hard facts of life and reality to the sheltered Harvard man. Faced with an unequivocal "No," he tries the next passage, and there he sees stark, unyielding rocks, and gets dust, from which he has always been hermetically sealed, in his eyes. On his right are men sweating and sometimes even cursing, and as he sits in Emerson A, perhaps the philosophy takes on new significance. Yes, a closed gate can sometimes mean an open mind...