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...Federation of Builders and Related Trades of Greece condemned the Polytechnic incidents of Friday and claimed the students had been led astray "by extremist elements." The federation said its 250,000 members had nothing to do with the disturbances...
Boorstin's tale of democracy gone astray and the defiling of the ideal has the ring of truth to it. He is always persuasive in his demonstration of these failings. His ability to show the historical roots of America's present uninspired attitude toward democracy is worthy of the highest praise. But the reader has a right to expect more from the historian than an explanation which holds that what happened happened because physical circumstance did not allow otherwise...
After failing to pick up goals in its last two outings, the Crimson finally found the scoring range in its Ivy League opener as the offense repeatedly broke through the Columbia fullbacks for shots on the harassed Lion goalie. In fact, had several easy scoring opportunities not gone astray, Harvard's goal total might easily have gone considerably higher...
...Dorothy Day (75), John Sirica (69) and Walter Cronkite (56) look and act their age. Surely no one has done more for age than 76-year old Sam Ervin, whose Watergate hearings are a parable of the times. One by one, bright young men who had gone astray filed before the aged patriarch to do penance and seek absolution. Nor was Ervin averse to providing them with a few homilies on conduct. "Ervin embodies wisdom, and he demonstrates that he knows how to cut it," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer. Teenagers have blossomed out in Sam Ervin T shirts...
...same time as Starr, with his 20th century values, is sympathetic to the dreams of Californians, he is quick to point out the false and narrow ideals Californians often had. London's delusions are only one example in the long history of the California mind going astray. The first visitors viewed with disgust the polyglot racial mix of Hispanic California, while later Protestant settlers hated the Catholics. Starr dutifully chants the litany of violent gold rush crimes and horrible racist acts against Indians and Chinese, but he makes it clear that these social realities are secondary matters. "...California concealed...