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...reassertion of official American morals after all the moral contaminations associated with the war in Viet Nam. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus was president of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at the height of Watergate. "In the early seventies," he remembers, "we had a group on cam pus weaned on the milk of dissent, convinced that the system had been subverted. Watergate was what turned them around. It proved to us all how incredibly strong our system...
...world where overpopulation threatens to destroy the environment even if overcrowding does not first trigger a nuclear holocaust, this attitude is insane, particularly from a social scientist. I don't know what Mr. Pattullo actually does, but his title suggests to me, as I cam certain it will to the general public, that this man is only slightly less exalted than a dean, whose pronouncements represent august academic judgment based on careful thought and research...
...events. Lyndon Johnson's fight for a civil rights bill in 1964 was a sometimes lonely road to glory. But our system is not an ideological one. It is based on flexibility, compromise. Clifford recalls Johnson as he sealed his fate in the sweltering officers' club of Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam, urging his field commanders to "come home with that coonskin on the wall." L.B.J.'s lust for victory was ultimately to defeat...
...Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...
...short step from The Gym to organized soccer. Her junior year in high school, Cat went out for, and made, the varsity team at Princeton Day. That fall an article appeared in the high school paper, a small feature about the talented soccer family Ferrante: Giaff, Cam, Phillip...