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Over-specialization and lack of versatility have once again skidded Crimson ski hopes onto the rocks. History has rolled over losing Harvard ski teams for a decade, and found each stricken with the same germs experts in certain events who can't mature to full-scale team competition...
...denunciation in definite, well-publicized terms. He ably points out that being an asset to some government department and being a valuable member of a university faculty are far from one and the same thing. Nor should the "armed truce" atmosphere in the world today load to panic-stricken curtailments of freedom, academic or otherwise...
...Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found...
...long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into the world, than if they sit at home to hug it to themselves. ... I suspect that Americans will find initiative and action so much more to their taste than any panic-stricken waiting on what destiny may bring...
...enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied...