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...believe that the claim by National Guardsmen that their lives were endangered was fabricated subsequent to the event." The book is partly a collection of pieces about the shootings which Stone wrote late last year for the New York Review of Books, with a special report by the Akron Beacon-Journal, a summary of the FBI report-never published before-and the text of the original grand jury report appended...
...Tanzania, Nyerere's rechristened nation, and for the rest of the countries that entered the 1960s with such great expectations, the torch has proved a flickering beacon. Some of the dreams of uhuru have been shattered; a very few, such as the founding of the Organization for African Unity in 1963, have been fulfilled. Black Africa is embarking on its second decade of independence with a more realistic outlook and sounder, brighter hopes of genuine progress. But the prediction that the Duke of Gloucester offered to the leaders of Nigeria in 1959 still rings true: "The future...
THERE was a time when Popeye was the only one who could tell me what to eat. Last week, in the dining room of a narrow but long Beacon Hill townhouse, Jean Mayer usurped him. Mayer had just complimented his wife on her choice of bread and mentioned that Shana Alexander and the other editors at McCall's thought that his commentary on woman's liberation "was the greatest thing they had seen in years," when he said to me, "You should eat more." Before I could protest he served me up a triple portion of squash...
Although Jean Mayer might have filled the big brick house behind Emerson Hall, his obituary isn't going to suffer if he has to stay on Beacon Hill. As we were looking at his father's portrait and the French sabers opposite it on the wall, Dr. Mayer said to me, "A man has to know where he comes from in order to know where he wants to go. Otherwise he will live from moment to moment, and instead of being a statesman he will be a politician, instead of a scientist, a technician." I was sure that Jean Mayer...
...last decade of his Presidency, Pusey built more buildings and raised more money than he had before, but there was a subtle difference. A quiet vote of confidence had been taken, and he had been defeated. Beacon Hill was no longer on his side. He reacted with suspicion to every move made by the Dean of the Faculty, McGeorge Bundy (whose family tree abounds in Lowells, Putnams, and other Beacon Hill familiars.), and acted as Dean himself for a year after Bundy's resignation, attempting to reassert his control. It is no accident that no Harvard graduate, indeed, no Easterner...