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...laws and changed behavior. The Revolution was above all a struggle to protect and enhance liberty, and though liberty was at first thought to mean only freedom from Britain, in the end the concept extended to a wide range of human affairs. Some prominent men, like President Timothy Dwight of Yale, feared that the new liberality would mean an end to all morality...
...large the roster that played to rave reviews last year remained the same. Rico Petrocelli belted out three hits and the outfield trio of Jim Rice, Freddy Lynn and Dwight Evans combined for a melody of five hits (three of them for extra bases), as the offense that appeared dormant in Baltimore emerged from its winter hibernation...
...characteristic remark, utterly self-assured and mockingly arrogant. But when Bernard Law Montgomery died at 88 last week at Hampshire, England, there was no shortage of experts who agreed-almost. Historian A.J.P. Taylor felt that Montgomery was "the best British field commander since Wellington." Dwight Eisenhower, World War II boss of the brusque and banty (5 ft. 8 in.) field marshal, said that Monty was tops at winning the admiration of his men and in fighting set-piece battles. Others called Montgomery s overrated and unimaginative as a general and spiteful and cantankerous as a man. Whatever the final verdict...
...past six months President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Dwight H. Perkins, acting director of the East Asian Research Center, have been working out details with members of the Australian government's U.S. Bicentennial Celebrations Board...
...suggests a rebirth of rural primitivism, some of those recoiling from the city have settled into rustic and often difficult lives far from urban civilization. The late '60s rural communes persist in Vermont New Hampshire, California, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere. Many city-bred farmers have discovered that Dwight Eisenhower (scarcely a guru) was right when he remarked that farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield...