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There was robust George Romney, up with the dawn and jogging about the sun deck in his sneakers, later chiding asthenic reporters: "I was up while you fellows were still asleep." At safety drill, Romney and Ronald Reagan found themselves in the same lifeboat. Their fellow potential survivors showed up in the prescribed orange life jackets, but the putative rivals, jacketless, were plainly determined to either sink or swim on the strength of their own buoyancy...
...long hair is now a political asset, although Washington's most notorious tousle, Everett Dirksen, declines comment as "below the pale." Dirksen is at least known to have visited his barber before the 1952 Republican Convention, at which he appeared in a hairdo that would have thawed a drill sergeant's heart...
...senior-year Army ROTC course, Military Science 4hf, currently receives full half-course academic credit and runs throughout the year. It includes three one-hour classes and a two-hour drill period each week. Although a ROTC cadet must pass this course to be eligible for commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Reserves, the final decision on commissions depends on the opinion of the Professor of Military Science and his staff. The CEP discussion with Pell is simply to decide whether the course should receive full-half course credit...
...freshman soccer team has a drill in which two players pass back and forth down the field, trying to set up a good shot. All the forwards practice it, but when you watch it for a while, you keep waiting for the times Solomon Gomez and Peter Bogovich head downfield...
...Gomez and Bogovich keep working on that drill, the freshmen shouldn't have all that much trouble with anybody. In fact, the Harvard soccer team might be pretty well set for a long time to come...