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...everyone is willing to do battle with Buckley on his turf. Buckley was anxious to match wits with Senator Robert Kennedy on Firing Line, offered him $500 and a role in planning the format. But Bobby was not about to rise to that tempting bale. He sent word back through an aide that he would rather not. Asked why he thought Kennedy had turned him down, Buckley replied: "Why does baloney reject the grinder...
...such willingness was evident at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where 2,500 demonstrators clashed with police over the right of the Dow Chemical Co. to recruit job applicants on university turf. (Dow's crime, as seen from the campus, is that it manufactures napalm.) Although University Chancellor William H. Sewell canceled further interviews by the Dow recruiters "pending a special meeting of the faculty," the issue had already shifted to "police brutality" and the charge that the university had sold out by calling in outside force...
...that the case of the fighting man of this country be put on the line. Their country has asked them to take on the task of keeping its commitment to our neighbors across the Pacific. The price is very high. The actual cost is evidenced by the freshly turned turf in Arlington and the crowded wards of our military hospitals. In these places lie the quiet ones-the givers. We never hear from them because they are not vocal. We hear only from the selfish who are unwilling to see their country through another trying period. These folks with back...
REMEMBER AGAIN: the law school faculty is principally a teaching faculty rather than one where individual researchers have staked out a particular piece of academic turf to cultivate with the aid of graduate assistants, and jealously to ward off invaders. Thus, at last winter's annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, the published Proceedings give the impression of discussions primarily centered about how to teach a particular subject rather than discussions of research strategy, empirical findings or conceptual elaborations. In contrast, at the sociology meetings in San Francisco at the end of August, among 95 organized sessions...
...long famed as the "bookmaker to the Establishment," the snobbish West End-based firm had all but faded away along with its blueblooded patrons when Stein's uncle bought the entire outfit in 1956 for a paltry $700,000. The son of a prosperous London horse-parlor and turf-news-service operator, Stein himself became Ladbroke's top man in 1958 at age 30. Last year he turned $1,700,000 profit from a total of $100 million in wagers...