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...Bullitt, still surveying the clay fragments and wood, saw something that looked round, and, well, complete. He scooped it up and headed for the surface...
...that moment last July, Bullitt was so absorbed in his underwater survey that if someone had tapped him on the back, he probably wouldn't have looked up. He is like that--always immersed in what he is doing, and always dividing and redividing his time so that he can do things. He is the kind of man would like to taste every dish on every menu in the world; the kind of man who is so indefatigably curious that he would almost stop people on the MBTA to ask them what they had done that morning and what they...
There was some ship's planking on the bottom, and Bullitt must have smiled as he scudded down to pick up a piece. He has a contagious smile that starts at his lips and then conquers his entire face, smoothing lines and erasing half of his 44 years. It is a solid smile, like the solid stuff he likes. Bullitt always wants to get the measure of things, to put a ruler to them and look at them under a magnifying glass. Perhaps this is why he doesn't like abstract art, where such measurements don't have meaning, while...
...Bullitt smiles when he talks about that lamp. When he does anything, whether it is studying eighteenth century literature or spending hours aloft in a rented Cessna 150 working for a pilot's license, or playing a weekly game of tennis with John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, he does it whole-hog, with an eye to getting good results...
Next year Bullitt sets forth from his Widener cubicle for a one-year stint with the Peace Corps. In June, he leaves for Washington to polish up his newly-acquired Spanish--he is taking Spanish Bab and working at it--and to learn about Latin American culture. That done, he will leave for a South American country, probably Peru, to become Peace Corps Deputy Representative there. In that position, he will be helping volunteers get settled and happy in their work. But, for all its forms and tests, the Peace Corps is pretty much a catch as catch can affair...