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Gould, rescued from the Crimson bench, finished his Harvard career with his finest performance of late. Fullback Dave Wright and inside Lutz Hoeppner, the other seniors in the starting lineup, played up to their usual level and should be around when the All-Ivy honors are distributed...
...ever young. This second volume of Randolph Churchill's five-part biography of his father presents the apprentice statesman, exuberantly flexing the first sinews of power. The book spans only 14 years, opening in 1901 with a brash Churchill of 26 taking his seat on the Tory back bench, and closes on the figure of the First Lord of the Admiralty...
Warren's deep involvement in the court's major cases began almost immediately after he ascended the bench on October 5, 1953. His first big test was Brown v. Board of Education, the school-desegregation case. It was quickly apparent to him that a majority of the court was going to strike down the separate-but-equal rule, which had been challenged in Kansas and three other states. Well aware that an order to desegregate all public schools would be a nation-shaking step, the new Chief was anxious that the decision be unanimous, without any separate concurrences...
Chuck Berry drops clumsily to his knees to retune his guitar. An old man with pointed loafers and a ducktail--what is he doing holding an electric guitar and talking about rock 'n roll? He seems to belong on a park bench somewhere, drinking wine from a paper sack...
That seemingly inexhaustible engine, the U.S. economy, last week ticked off yet another record. It completed 80 consecutive months of expansion, equaling the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945, and showed no signs of pausing. Later this month, the nation will pass two other important statistical bench marks. At midmonth, the gross national product will top the $800 billion level; the $1 trillion mark is certain to be reached in the early 1970s. And on Nov. 20, at precisely 11 a.m., the Census Bureau's population clock, which records an additional American every 141 seconds, will register...