Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alliance. That aid is needed, all are agreed. The question is how much. Many Latin Americans fear that even the generous U.S. commitment will not be enough to achieve its high goals, particularly the aim to raise the per capita income by 2.5% a year. Such a feat, they say, could only be accomplished by pouring in $3 billion-perhaps $6 billion -worth of U.S. aid each year...
...August 1941, Goldwater went on active duty with the Army Air Forces, a feat that took every bit of his selling ingenuity. Although clearly unfit for service -he was overage and had severe astigmatism, in addition to bad knees-Goldwater bluffed his way past the physical exam*. Assigned to Phoenix's Luke Field in a nonflying post, he bummed rides in his spare time, demanded a check-out flight -and got his wings. Later he ferried P-47s across the North Atlantic, saw action in the Mediterranean and C.B.I, theaters, emerged from the war a lieutenant colonel...
...League champions in hockey and outstanding squash, track, lacrosse, and tennis teams. Although the Yale football and swimming juggernauts could not be stopped in 1960-61, other teams compiled eminently satisfactory records against Yale. In 1958, the lightweight crew won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley, and repeated the feat in 1959 and 1960, the first three-straight victory in 92 years...
Understandably, For the New intellectual explains only in the most general terms how this feat is to be accomplished. Miss Rand does, however, list two general principles by which her "intellectual Renaissance" must be brought about--"that emotions are not tools of cognition" and that "no man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others." The first of these is fully consistent with the basic axioms of "objectivism." The second is presumably a product of Miss Rand's high opinion of personal freedom, but it seems strange that men should be able to cut one another...
Carter Wilson's short story, Love Children, is the least pretentious piece in the Advocate (no great feat). There are certain moments in which his characters seem to approach credibility. Mr. Wilson, however, was rather premature in submitting this story, and the Advocate has done him a positive disservice in printing it. Anyone who could write "Harry was a painter, his group was excited and wild, so Jody never fit in there," needs training in the fundamentals of English syntax, and greatly sharpened sensitivity in the semi-circular canals...