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Prophets' Dream. Wallace finally bowed to reality in 1950, when the Communists invaded South Korea. He broke with the Progressive Party, advised the U.S. to rearm "as fast as possible," and became "convinced that Russia is out to dominate the world." In the years of cold war and domestic...
Reggie Maudling, Sir Alec's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a relaxed Saint Bernard of a man. Ted Heath, an energetic "technocrat," made his reputation as Britain's hard-nosed representative in the ill-fated Common Market negotiations. Victory by either will represent a sharp break in the...
On April 17, 1961, the ill-fated Cuban invasion landed at Bay of Pigs. Exactly four years later, on April 17, 1965, I received from my father a letter from which I would like to quote:
Righthander John Scott, who has a 1-2 record, will start for Harvard. Despite his unimposing record, Scott has been the one bright spot on an otherwise pitch-poor squad. He has yielded only six earned runs in 27 innings, for a 2.00 ERA. Scott registered the Crimson's only...
For a few tense days last week, it seemed that New York was fated to suffer a repetition of the 1962-63 strike that shut down the city's papers for 114 days and hastened the New York Mirror to its death. Contract negotiations that had run on since...