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With thousands rioting outside (and a bartending course next door) only nine people showed up to hear Student Council President Howard J. Phillips '62 and his antagonist of last week, Michael M. Hornblow '62, discuss the Peace Corps...
Peaceful Yes. His attitude-somewhere between that of a benevolent emperor and a stern schoolteacher-was justified by the results. Fully 75% of French voters said yes to De Gaulle, and he carried every single department in France. Jacques Soustelle, his most important and gifted antagonist, campaigned fiercely in Lyon, where he was elected Deputy in 1958, and lost. "Let us recognize the brutal fact," said Soustelle when the results were in. "Algeria must interpret the vote as a gesture of abandonment...
...California campaigns for House and Senate, Nixon men had confidently expected their man to give Kennedy a decisive trouncing. Nixon himself was less cocky. He had debated with Kennedy on a public platform back in 1947, when they were both freshman Congressmen, and recalled him as a tough antagonist. "Everyone expects me to wipe up the floor with this guy," Nixon said before the first debate. "But it's not going to be easy...
...Daniel Poling, 75, editor of the influential Protestant monthly, Christian Herald (circ.: 427,000), unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1951, and an antagonist of Jack Kennedy's since 1950. It was then that a building-fund dinner was held in Philadelphia for an interfaith chapel within the Grace Baptist Temple (Poling's pulpit from 1936 to 1948) to be dedicated to the memory of the four famed Army chaplains who went down with the troopship Dorchester in 1943-including Poling's own son, Lieut. Clark V. Poling. Congressman Kennedy accepted an invitation to speak...
...bitter row with the Army. Cohn viewed more than 25 executives and engaged two management consultant firms before finding "the impossible man." "They said he didn't exist," said Cohn, "but here he is." Medaris takes a prudently tolerant view of working with the Army's former antagonist, says: "Let us forgive the mistakes of youth...