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Writer's Cramp...
...class, waving an inevitable cigarette about, he packed his lectures with so much information that writers' cramp became universal among his students. In 1951 he published his Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone, which, in bringing the techniques of 20th century literary criticism to classical scholarship, is considered by his colleagues to be something of a scholarly "roadbreaker." But beyond his teaching and research, Goheen retained his one-of-the-boys quality-the amiable father of six children, the Sunday afternoon coach of a small boys' football team, the dufferish but genial companion on the golf links...
...force to reckon with in the Cambridge community. Whenever Harvard or M.I.T. plans a project which requires any sort of delicate negotiating, the utmost care is taken to shield proceedings from the eye of the Councillor. As one M.I.T. spokesman said recently, "You just can't imagine what a cramp he can put in things when he starts poking around...
...midstroke, Glover splashed to a stop at the shallow end of the pool, then grabbed the gutter with both hands. "John, have you got a cramp?" asked an assistant coach. "Can I help you?" John Glover slumped back into the water, his eyes closed. Some swimmers grabbed him and lifted him to the deck, face down. He groaned two or three times, but he did not respond to artificial respiration. A Pulmotor did not help. An ambulance rushed Glover to the hospital but he was dead when it got there...
Before any effective increase occurs, the U.S. will have to show itself willing to initiate significant measures to release the cramp in East-West commerce. The latest "relaxation" is nothing but a scrap thrown to clamoring critics in an effort to pacify them. Much more will have to be done before the Administration can pose as anxious to thaw frozen channels of trade...