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Marathon swimming is an expensive hobby-boats must be hired, support crews trained-and Mary needed someone to bankroll her adventures. Daddy did not offer, and Mary did not ask. To her rescue came the National Tea Council (she drinks tea during her swims), the Detroit chapter of the National Society of Non-Smokers (she does not smoke) and the National Swimming Pool Institute. When Mary swam the Strait of Gibraltar last June, solicitous Spanish smugglers provided boats and guides. In July, a Turkish newspaper persuaded her to visit Turkey. She shocked the staid Turks by wandering around in Bermuda...
...their material into three major categories: 1. "The quest for national unity and identity." 2. The impact of industrialism on an agrarian state. 3. "The transformation of the nation's original sense of mission to its present sense of responsibility...." Each of these categories is treated in a single chapter, and the entire book runs only to 155 pages. Such brevity on so sweeping a theme creates difficulties. The authors present their work in a wonderfully clear, concise style, but often their conciseness serves only to conceal complicated and important points. The book will excite specialists in American studies with...
...charges against Kerciu, which carry maximum penalties of $600 and six months imprisonment, also provoked a unanimous statement by the Ole Miss chapter of the American Association of University Professors defending Kerciu and assailing the Ole Miss administration for not supporting...
...book's final chapter, Miss Arendt emphasizes the price Americans are paying for having forgotten and having allowed others to forget their revolutionary heritage. "The point is unpleasantly driven home when even revolutions on the American continent speak and act as though they knew by heart the texts of revolutions in France, in Russia, and in China, but had never heard of such a thing as an American Revolution. Less spectacular, perhaps but certainly no less real, are the consequences of the ... American failure to remember that a revolution gave birth to the United States...
...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last night announced the election of the following as the junior eight; Nicholas F. Bunnin, of Adams House and Los Angeles, Calif., social studies; Joel E. Cohen, of Adams and Washington, D.C., mathematics; Alan M. Eisner, of Winthrop and New York City, physics...