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...Thursday night, Nash was courteous, open and affable. He admitted Harvard had a slight edge and said Penn would try their best to do well, generally assuming a Parker-like philosophy about everything. How can one dislike a man who has assumed the image of a man one reveres? Parker may have a twin on the Schuylkill after...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 5/1/1971 | See Source »

...deadpan account of a violent peace demonstration that took place just outside Fort Dix, N.J., on Armed Forces Day 1970. Between the public relations game of a peacetime Army and the pitched battles of war-sick civilians, a decade of change is neatly revealed. Nothing cosmic, only a clear, courteous reminder of how much things have changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talk of the Nation | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

THEY were all just trying to do their jobs; the woman at the hearing test, the guys who took urine samples and blood samples and X-rays and measured height and weight, they were all courteous...

Author: By Harry Stein, | Title: Scenes Whitehall Revisited | 1/20/1971 | See Source »

...vigorous, athletic man, he is unfailingly friendly and courteous, and, unlike his administrative counterparts in the College, relatively close to students...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: An Unwilling Candidate | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

...Here, you've really got to be a little more tactful," he added. "Some young guys won't last. Some new guys figure that [being courteous] is wiping somebody's fanny...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: A Day in the Life of Harvard's Chief Cop | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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