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Political Megatonnage. It was not only the fear of foreign attack that forced the Administration's hand. During the launching of the nation's 92nd nuclear-powered submarine in Groton, Conn., two weeks ago, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, warned ominously, "With all our offensive power, our defense posture could be our Achilles' heel." Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson leaked word that he would hold hearings on the ABM-and Lyndon Johnson was aware that they would pack plenty of political megatonnage. Richard Nixon...
About 5000 students will file through Memorial Hall today to register for the 92nd session of the Harvard Summer School, the oldest summer education program in the United States...
...their white officers, John Pershing of the 10th Negro Cavalry, became "Black Jack" to a later generation because of his service with Negro troops.) In World Wars I and II, some of the luster was lost with reports of the sometimes cowardly performance of the Negro 92nd and 93rd Divisions, and with the rioting by off-duty Negro soldiers that accompanied a rise in racial tensions...
...fashionable to call Norman Mailer the bad boy of American literature and leave it at that. The underground stories about him circulate, and the incidents he provokes have become legend. Who has not heard about his poetry reading at the 92nd St. YMHA in New York, when officials rang down the curtain during a performance for the first time in twenty years? Or his nomination of Hemingway for President? Or his own candidacy for Mayor of New York? Or his belief that plastic causes cancer? Mailer, the cynics say, is "paceless, tasteless, and graceless...
When owners first nominated their horses for this week's 92nd running of the Kentucky Derby last winter, the handicappers all figured it for strictly a three-horse race: Buckpasser, 1965's champion two-year-old, Moccasin, 1965's champion two-year-old filly, and Graustark, the much-touted, undefeated wonder horse. But there is many a slip 'twixt the Cup and such lip. Two months ago, Buckpasser cracked his right front hoof and had to be scratched. As sometimes happens with fillies, Moccasin failed to improve; she will not run. That left all the roses...