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...British Naval Commander Anthony Courtney. A onetime chief of the Soviet section of naval intelligence, Courtney retired, began a successful business as a consultant on East-West trade, and won election as a Tory Member of Parliament. In Commons, Courtney seized on the dangers of Soviet spying as one of his big issues. That irritated the KGB. Before he came up for reelection, the KGB reached into its files and produced a 1961 photo showing Courtney in compromising positions with a comely, blonde, hazel-eyed Intourist guide named Zina, a "swallow" he had met on a business trip to Moscow...
...took over at Swarthmore just a few months after former president Courtney Smith died of a heart attack during a black students' sit-in. The main issue was black admissions and one of Cross's first acts was to carry through on the university's promise to increase black enrollment...
...view of America as an experiment remains a tremendously exciting fact. It sets up an important parallel between conservatives and radicals. The radicals would sneer at the "American Proposition," the belief that the U.S. must live up to a special act of providence, which was John Courtney Murray's scholarly elaboration of "God's country." And yet this fierce sense of a special American destiny is where Murray -and Henry R. Luce-meet the radicals. Radicals make demands on America that could only be fulfilled by an extraordinary nation, by a nation straining against the limits of history...
...titans ends with deaths of C. S. Lewis, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer, Paul Tillich, John Courtney Murray, Thomas Merton, Harry Emerson Fosdick-and the pre-eminent theologian Karl Barth...
...addition to Lesser, Kagan, Mrs. Chall, and Sheldon White, six members of the Ed School Faculty-professors Lawrence Kohlberg. Chester M. Pierce, Courtney B, Cazden, Burton L. White, Marion I Walter, and Leon Eisenberg-helped to work out the shape of "Sesame Street...