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...GREAT DAYS (312 pp.)-John Dos Passes-Sagamore Press...
...three F47 fighters swooped down on the hamlet of Purial de Pilon a few days after some rebels passed through, strafing and bombing it for 25 minutes; 40 of the 400 townspeople were killed, including 17 women and children who were later buried in a common grave. In Dos Bocas de Cordero, Batista's airmen killed 15 villagers (and eight cows). Planes machine-gunned a peasant's funeral, apparently mistaking the single file of mourners for rebels. The government put a price of $100,000 on Castro's head and sent 1,000 men to reinforce...
...thousand words apiece, but as he explained in the introduction, "Since every word a Harvard man writes is precious and represents a deliberate alliance with God, I have not dared to eliminate much." The collection is sprinkled with big names: Pusey, Conant, S. N. Behrman, Van Wyck Brroks, Dos Passos, Learned Hand, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Senator John F. Kennedy, and John P. Marquand. Also are two having more recent experience of Harvard College: Michael Dean Butler '56, and Jonathan Kozol '58, who contribute two of the longest pieces. The thirty-nine essays are often too personal to be of much...
...emotion-laden "old alma mater" type plaints. They are some times nostalgic, but not for "the night we tore the Yale goalposts down" or for the good-natured camaraderie of their youth. Most represent a serious attempt to tell what they gained from Harvard, although for some, such as Dos Passos, the gain was not overly great: "It took me twenty years to discover that I did learn something at Harvard after all. Cambridge wasn't such a backwater as I'd thought...
Without visibly mounting blood pressure, the group adopted a new and greatly simplified code of ethics for doctors. Main departure from the old code was in brevity: instead of some 5,000 words, the new code sums up dos and don'ts in a mere 500. Dropped completely are former sections advising doctors on information for the public, patents and copyrights-and punctuality. Main emphasis, unchanged, is on service and integrity: "The principal objective of the medical profession is to render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of man . . . The medical profession should safeguard the "public...