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...Corporation halfheartedly discussed the Gulf Angola Project resolutions, which opposed Gulf Oil's involvement in Angola and other Portuguese colonies in Africa. The debate was limited, Hugh Calkins '43 Fellow of the Corporation, said, because the Fellows "weren't sure what Mr. Bennett had already done." Agreeing, John Morton Blum '43, Fellow of the Corporation, said afterwards, "It was a ship that passed in the night...
...full backing of the Governing Boards, and three members of the Corporation-Francis H. Burr '35, the man who headed the search for Pusey's successor, Hugh Calkins '45, and John M. Blum '43-are close friends of his. At this point, the Corporation and Overseers are beaming with pride over their new President; only time will tell how they react to his administrative inclinations...
...sons of neighbors, athletes and farm boys-unintellectual, mechanically adept-they did not fight for the Brave New World... There was no sense of the great cause," Blum said...
...Blum pointed to the writings of John Hersey and Norman Mailer '43 to explain the widening sense of disgust in which war is viewed. He cited the late General George Patton as the prototype of the "unintellectual" warrior, interested only in destruction...
...conclusion, Blum stated that the new generation has brought with it new heroes-heroes of the counterculture, not soldiers. "Where have all the heroes gone?... Gone from soldiering, every one," he said...