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Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson professor of Government, said yesterday he disagreed with Mandelbaum's position. Voluntarily removing himself from consideration "goes against Rockefeller's previous actions in his 30 years in politics," Huntington said...
...clippings in their scrapbooks. In almost every city and hamlet, Americans can see that the politicians who went to Washington now talk and act like men in a different nation from their fellow politicians who stayed back home. They see that their Governors-Lucey, Brown, Ray, Longley, Dukakis, Walker, Thomson, Evans-are true executives and make real decisions. Senators talk and shake hands...
Died. Sir George Paget Thomson, 83, British physicist and chairman of the wartime committee that confirmed the feasibility of building an atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. Thomson's father, Sir Joseph, discovered the electron in 1897 and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906; 31 years later, Sir George shared the same prize for his work on the wavelike movement of electrons. After the war, Sir George became a strong advocate of international atomic energy control...
Prose-Colored Glosses. In between such revisionist histories, Nice Guys Finish Last provides a series of fascinating and hilarious reminiscences, ranging from his locker-room wrangle with Babe Ruth to Bobby Thomson's shot heard round the world. But essentially the book is a series of prose-colored glosses aimed for fans rather than readers...
Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, has decided to revise a paper he co-authored that called for more authoritarianism in democratic governments and provoked "sharp debate" among the members of the private commission that had ordered it, the director of the commission said yesterday...