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When Big Business wanted to nake noise in Washington in recent years, it called on an elite corps of corporate chieftains. Not content to leave the lobbying to hired hands, members of the Business Roundtable, composed of chief executive officers from some 200 major corporations, personally trod White House and congressional corridors to press for business tax breaks or to protest nitpicking Government regulations. Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy, Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller and General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones became almost as familiar around the capital as the Marine Band, promoting not only...
That such a movement exists is almost beyond belief. Is this the avenue disaffected alumni, faculty and students have chosen to trod as a way of expressing their disenchantment with the college in general? Are those who saw the banning of the Indian symbol as an attack on tradition in general not capable of separating good traditions from bad ones? Is Dartmouth a leading indicator of the return of unsullied elitism to the Ivy League in general...
Using evidence available on the surface, Lash says, most of the writers that trod the historical ground before him concluded that Helen was somewhat shallow. They preferred Annie to Helen. The reason is simple, he says. "Helen was almost too good." Her world was one of friends and enemies, black and white; those who cared for her were good; those who slandered her Teacher were not. As Lash quotes Alexander Graham Bell, there was a feeling among those who met her that "if God undertook to be represented on the earth, it would be in the person of someone like...
Stirred out of his midday snooze, the large hippopotamus emerged from the crocodile-infested waters and lumbered onto the lake shore, leaving giant footprints in the mud. Soon a small, upright figure appeared. Perhaps looking for prey, he carefully trod among the wading birds and other fauna, crossing the trail of large prints along the shore...
...injuries during the game which might be attributed to the frigid drop in temperature early in the third quarter. Kydes, Wilmot, and junior Norrie Harrower were all hurt in the second half but the injuries turned out to be minor. "I have a muscular strain in my ankle. I trod on it wrong and it pained me terribly, but when you get up and run on it, its ok," said an elated Wilmot, "You know I didn't think it was going in but I was delighted it did," he added...