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...Senator Dirksen and his stand on repeal of Section 14(b) [Oct. 1]. My disgust with the 89th Congress and its faceless mass of yes men has been somewhat alleviated by Dirksen's refusal to knuckle under to the autocracy of the Johnson Administration. Compulsory unionism is akin to compulsory Communism, and no American should stand...
...family who had opened their home and hearts to us, a lovely, gentle, gracious girl who planned to enter nurse's training when she is graduated from high school this June. She must be one of the sweetest, prettiest girls in creation. Then anger rose in us--a feeling akin, I suppose, to the feeling of a white man for the sanctity of southern womanhood. Helen, trash? We should have left his office then, for we were no longer free...
...players. His starting line is set with Charlie Njoku and Dudley Blodget at the wings, Hugh Polk and Fred Akuffo at the insides, and Jim all at center forward. But there is a scramble for positions on the second line, esoecially at the wings. There the oss of Akin Adewole and Morgan Hudson have left the second positions wide open, and Munro will be looking for some more talent...
Coach Brune Munro has indicated his starting lineup will have a letterman at every position. Harvard's front line should provide a devastating scoring attack with Charlie Njoku and Hugh Polk on the left side, Jim Saltonstall at center forward, and Fred Akuffo and Akin Adewole on the right. This quintet accounted for 20 goals last year. Saltonstall had a remarkable sophomore season, notching ten goals--six of them in Ivy play, second best in the League. He should be even better this year...
...America, the young, the enthusiastic, the idealistic, the hopeful to learn." He perceived nonetheless that Americans can be crass, narrow-minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence." By the end of his three month visit, he had become "an addict to America...