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FIRST DAY. As dawn streaked across the amber and gold foliage on a heroic fall day, Fred was already prowling the beach, studying the heart-shaped tracks. "They're here," he whispered. A rangy, rawboned man with the weathered look of a backwoods sage, he was wearing his favorite old camouflage jacket and a battered gray fedora. As he explored the island, half a dozen deer bolted from distant thickets, their upturned tails waving like white flags. Later, sipping black coffee out of a tin can, he smiled: "Looks like this is going to be too easy...
When the guns grew silent in 1945, much of the world had been torn apart. "Only slowly did it dawn upon us," writes Acheson in this, the second volume of his memoirs (1941-1953), "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone and that the struggle to replace it would be directed from two bitterly opposed and ideologically irreconcilable power centers." The title of the book is thus not a rhetorical fancy. As Under Secretary (1945-1947) and later Secretary of State (1949-1953), he was present at the creation...
...police, many armed with tear gas guns and shotguns, surrounded the construction site before dawn yesterday at the request of President Burton C. Hallowell. Tufts had obtained a temporary restraining order Wednesday prohibiting black students from shutting down the construction, as they had Wednesday...
...election [Oct. 3] as possibly the worst thing that could ever happen to New York City. All progress that has occurred in the city could be obliterated. Let all the "Cadillac conservatives" lend themselves to the struggle of helping our city, and may all of us soon view the dawn of the age of human tolerance...
...several colleges, some of them in freezing weather. In Albany, New York, a group of students spent the night huddled around fires in blankets and sleeping bags while temperatures hovered in the low 30's. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, about 100 students, many in bathing suits, attended a dawn rally...