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...impose his will by force, but more often he must do it by cunning and patience. As Jacob Burckhardt, the great historian of the Renaissance, put it: "Without him the world would seem to us incomplete . . . He appears complete in every situation, but every situation at once seems to cramp him. He does not merely fill it. He may shatter it . . . He beholds the true situation and the means at his command . . . He knows what can be the foundations of his future power. Confronted with parliaments, senates, assemblies, press, public opinion, he knows at any moment how far they...
...goggles over her eyes, and set out for the distant Italian coast. Two and a half hours later, she waded ashore, paused just long enough to gulp down honey, glucose tablets and tea, then started back toward Sicily. The going was tougher now; her right arm developed a cramp; she swallowed sea water and vomited. Only her legs kept her going. At last, after 5 hrs. and 22 min. in the water, Mary Revell staggered ashore at Grotta, Sicily-the first person ever to swim the Messina Strait both ways. She blew a kiss to the cheering crowd...
...powerful Tigers--seven deep in top runners. Hamlin clipped 30 seconds off the old course record, and Crain fought right up to the last 10 yards of the five mile course to beat Princeton's Somers for third. Junior Eddie Meehan was hit by a stomach cramp halfway through the contest, but still managed to finish sixth with a 24:57 time...
Charles de Gaulle needs a lot of room to move around in; and in the past few weeks two major events have combined to cramp his person and style badly. Two weeks ago it looked like political events in France were just going to follow their normal pattern: the President was going to overthrow Parliament and radically alter the Constitution. And he did both--but the results of his actions left de Gaulle in an ambiguous situation, in a world far removed from one ruled by the simple alternatives of "oui" and "non" which he favors...
...other play, Harvard's Keith Martin suffered a heartbreaking loss when he was on his way to defeating Ambert's number two man, Lou Alcaly, but then suffered a leg cramp in the third set and was forced to withdraw...