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George Spoto, a quarterback from Tampa, Fla., kept his boys moving well against spirited but hopelessly overpowered opponents. Spoto scored the first Crimson TD on a quarterback sneak up the middle, and passed to Curt Lemkau for another...
...obstacle to curt dismissal of such hair- splitting is that these matters of definition are more important than that: Sheldon Messinger and Burton Clark argue presuasively that Riesman has used social character to talk about personality when he should have centered his attention on schools, work, and nations in which people behave as if other-directed. Talcott Parsons and Winston White analyze the word values, and continuities in the evolution of American behavior which Riesman does not mention. These preoccupations with careful anlysis can be most frustrating (Robert Gutman and Dennis Wrong talk about property space and chop words with...
Your story "A Matter of Morale" [June 16] was amusing, interesting and factual-and you shouldn't ought to have done it. Curt LeMay doesn't like us anyway, and now that he knows that we live almost as well as the demigods of the Strategic Air Command, there will be hell...
...Curt LeMay is not much of a hand for chitchat. When his aides, in reporting, begin to stray from the subject at hand, Curt is certainly curt: "Stop, you're talking nonsense." Recently subjected to an interview by a Washington pundit who seemed more anxious to make speeches than to ask questions, LeMay interrupted: "If you know all the damned answers, then what are you doing here?" LeMay is as hard-boiled a disciplinarian as exists in the high command of the U.S. armed forces. But he is renowned for backing his men when they make understandable mistakes...
What was the reason for De Gaulle's new urgency? Cabled TIME Paris Bureau Chief Curt Prendergast...