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...Question. Amid the continuing echoes of the crisis, the 40,000 men of the Sixth Fleet were back last week on their arduous routine patrolling-up to twelve hours a day on watch broken by chow lines, snatched sack time, ships' movies, and mail brought in almost daily by helicopter and high-line-with a high level of discipline and a low level of petty offenses that reflected superb morale. "This," said one ensign, comparing the salad days of Mediterranean duty to the present paucity of ports, "is no all-expense tour...
...Search of Self. Hopper's search for self has been long, arduous and undeviating. It began in the town of Nyack, N.Y.. up the Hudson River from Manhattan. There he was a bookish, gawky, well-bred boy-the son of a scholarly and unbusinesslike merchant-who built his own sailboat at the age of twelve. Five years later he enrolled in Robert Henri's art school on Manhattan's 57th Street. Henri was the presiding genius of an American art movement sneeringly dubbed the "Ash Can School." Instead of the vapid, idealistic studio pictures then...
Searching for new laboratory space in 1940, Stanley S. Stevens, professor of Psychology, turned to the eastern part of the basement of Memorial Hall. After an arduous period or reconditioning--he had to drain a room filled with a foot and a half of oil--Stevens founded the Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory, designed for research in the psychological problems of hearing and communications...
...said, his father was drafted and had no opportunity to campaign on a personal basis. This year, however, he has used the personal approach both through a "long and arduous" primary campaign and since winning the nomination...
...calling "a phony" was indeed phony enough. The Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate, aided and abetted by many rank-and-file members of both parties, was trying to foist off on the Defense Department an extra $1.1 billion for the Air Force-which the Administration, after arduous consideration, had decided it did not need. At the same time, but by no means the result of erratic happenstance-the Senate Democratic leaders, again urged on by bipartisan rank-and-filers, seemed determined to lop $1.1 billion off the foreign-aid program-a cut which the Administration, after painful consideration...