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...Foreign Secretary three times. He won an outpouring of public respect by resigning that post when he disagreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when it came Eden's turn to serve as Prime Minister, he had perhaps...
...emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks." The author is as wry and bemused when he describes bones, the digestive tract or a kidney stone, "this small piece of gravel" in Pascal's phrase, that could bring down Oliver Cromwell and alter the course of history...
Accordingly, in order to eliminate the major inequalities which have been built into our present system, I propose a comprehensive plan to alter the housing system as follows: (1) the establishment of three-year Houses throughout the system; (2) the housing of all freshmen in the Yard or adjacent thereto; (3) the elimination of upperclass room assignments distant from the Houses; (4) an immediate start to major construction in the Quad area, to include the building of a new dining hall for South House; (5) a reconsideration of current weekend dining arrangements for freshmen, including the possibility of reopening...
...most interesting alternative was 1:1:2, with all Freshmen in the Radcliffe Quadrangle, all Sophomores in the Harvard Yard and all Juniors and Seniors in the River Houses. This would alter the House system radically, but would certainly solve many problems. It would allow for better integration of programs for Freshmen and Sophomores, it would make the college experience more similar for all students, it would effectively limit the relative ranking of the various Houses, and competition for places in the popular ones; and would insure that all students did in fact live in the House system...
Even when they try, networks find it hard to alter their half-hour formula. This probably explains why Barbara Walters at ABC has justified neither the fears nor the hopes for her million-dollar presence. Remember the outburst from CBS News President Richard Salant when Walters was signed? "This isn't journalism-this is a minstrel show. Is Barbara a journalist, or is she Cher?" It is as interviewer and not as minstrel that ABC has tried to use her. The interview format, it turns out, does not particularly enhance a headline service. There sit Barbara and Harry Reasoner...