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General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, 77, has rarely been surrounded by so much rank. At a West Point Society dinner in Manhattan, Ike's five stars were flanked by a platoon of active and retired four-star generals, including SHAPE Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, Mark Clark, Alfred Gruen-ther, Lauris Norstad, Jacob Devers, Lucius Clay and Anthony McAuliffe. For that glittering crew, the society decided that no citations, no medals could come close to being adequate. "What award could we possibly give these men?" asked a spokesman plaintively...
Quincy will now play the winner of Yale's intramural soccer contest during New Haven Weekend. At the moment Siliman, last year's champion is in the lead with a 7-1 record. With three games remaining in the Yale season, however, Dwight and Pierson Colleges still have shots at the title...
Among the committee's 100 or so founders are some of the nation's most illustrious figures. Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower belong; so do Dean Acheson and James F. Byrnes-thus accounting for every living former President and Secretary of State. Dwight Eisenhower's last Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates is a member, as are A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, General Lucius D. Clay, former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, ex-Governor Pat Brown of California and retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall...
...Dwight Macdonald, the bearded literary critic, was aghast at the barroom bathos, but failed to argue Mailer off the platform. Macdonald eventually squeezed in the valorous observation that Ho Chi Minh was really no better than Dean Rusk. After more obscenities, Mailer introduced Poet Robert Lowell, who got annoyed at requests to speak louder. "I'll bellow, but it won't do any good," he said, and proceeded to read from Lord Weary's Castle. By the time the action shifted to the Pentagon, Mailer was perky enough to get himself arrested by two marshals. "I transgressed...
...another entrance Dr. Spock, Dellinger, writer Dwight Macdonald, M.I.T.'s Noam Chomsky, poet Robert Lowell '37, Mrs. Dagmar Wilson of Women's Strike for Peace, comedian Dick Gregory and about 20 other notables were being hemmed in by soldiers as they sat arguing about the war in a one-sided conversation with the troops. The troops kicked and shoved them, and they were scared. Finally, after holding Spock and friends captive for over an hour, the soldiers moved back. Dellinger and several others were arrested...