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...said. "But it may clutter up the track a bit." For a while, he added, "I had begun to look as though I was the front runner, and I'm not sure I liked that. Now I am back in the race again, looking like a challenger, beset on both sides. I think it's a slight plus...
Moreover the Coach has been beset by injuries. Barth Royer, a high-scoring forward and leader came back from summer vacation with a bad back, hurt his knee over Christmas and then developed mononucleosis. He's played only one game at full strength during the Ivy campaign, sparking the Crimson's sole victory over Brown. A defensive standout as a freshman, Ernie Hardy practiced for a week at the beginning of the season and then had to quit until this week for scholastic reasons. Last year's starting guard Jeff Grate played very little during the summer and then...
...years past, Lyndon Johnson's presidential messages called on Congress to enact a plethora of broad, even visionary, programs. Times have changed. Beset by foreign crises and committed to holding down spending at home, the President last week sent three domestic programs to Capitol Hill spelling out segments of his State of the Union speech. The President's oratory was as resonant as ever, but it masked an anemia of fresh ideas...
Muddling Through. How is Keren's Uncle Sam-looking more and more like a mellowed John Bull-making out in the hectic second half of the 20th century? Beset by technological revolution and Negro unrest at home and by costly war abroad, he is still doing quite well for an old guy. In a two-out-of-three-cheers mood, Heren defends the basics of U.S. foreign policy by pointing out that "great powers have always accepted the necessity to intervene." While reminding Americans that their concern reaches from "the moon and stars down to the gutters...
...much: they have propelled this nation to the position of power it now holds; and have enabled this nation to be a potential force for world peace and progress. But it is equally clear that a forced emphasis on those endeavors is not going to solve the problems which beset the future. Only rarely is the cause of a condition also its cure...