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Riesman is an admirer of Moynihan's all-embracing academic interests, which he says equip him as a diplomat to "deal with issues on a plane of both contemporary and historical perspective." Riesman recalls a Phi Beta Kappa address that Moynihan delivered at Harvard in which he compared student radicals of the 1960s to the Quaker, Leveler and Digger religious dissidents of Cromwell's England, and then predicted that student activism would die out in the '70s when the demographic bulge produced by the postwar baby boom subsided. Says Riesman: "There aren't many people who have enough knowledge...
Part of the answer is related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's $30,000 October shopping spree. In one afternoon Mrs. Onassis spent more than most of the families of Black students here earn in an entire year. If any college can possibly equip a young woman with the skills necessary to earn as much as Jackie Onassis's clothing bill, this is the place. Or so the story goes. Even the illusion of a promise keeps the applications coming...
...shortly after that event, he felt the call to go back home to Virginia. While his wife and two children subsisted mainly on donated soybeans, he tried to raise enough capital to buy and equip a defunct TV station in Portsmouth that he hoped to turn into a Christian voice. His first attempt failed, but finally, through gifts and loans, Robertson launched the station, which he christened WYAH, for Yahweh. By 1961 he was on the air with one camera and a 2½-hour program of preaching and country hymns...
Most cases of hypothermia can be avoided if hikers will remember that even in the summer, storms and winds can come up quickly, and temperatures in the mountains can fall by as much as 30° in a matter of minutes. Thus they must eat well, dress and equip themselves for the worst weather possible. Hikers should also exercise their intelligence as well as their legs and turn back when weather conditions deteriorate. "One of the hardest things to learn," says Joel White of the Appalachian Mountain Club, "is how to turn around and come back." It is also...
...international trade in nonnuclear arms now tops $18 billion annually?up from a mere $300 million in 1952, and a jump of more than 550% since 1964.* Moreover, this represents only a fraction of total military expenditures: in 1973 the nations of the world spent $240 billion to train, equip and maintain their armed forces. Until a few years ago, nations usually