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Army and Harvard, about as unlikely a pair of rivals as one could imagine, renew a heated track feud this afternoon in what should be one of the best dual meets in the East this spring. Activities will commence in Memorial Stadium...
...Minister Ludwig Erhard, architect of the West German economic boom, and the most popular choice among West German voters. One Cabinet minister guesses that Erhard also commands the loyalty of 60% of C.D.U. politicians. But Erhard still has one formidable enemy-der Alte himself who has conducted a petulant feud with paunchy "Uncle Ludwig." Adenauer's influence is still great, and last week the field was still wide open with half a dozen other candidates, led by Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, to be considered. Whom would der Alte prefer? "I don't want to push anyone into misery...
...Agamemnon is first of three plays, the Oresteia ("about Orestes"), which form the only trilogy that has survived to us from Greek drama. Beginning in a hopeless hereditary blood feud, it ends in an orderly court of law. From Force to Persuasion, this trilogy has been declared to be one of the supreme achievements of man in his thus-far residence on this planet. Although approached by Sophocles, Euripides, and Shakespeare, the Agamemnon, even considered alone; has never been surpassed...
...modern nations, on a planet already in train to be unified by speed of communication and travel, by science and the arts, still living in a state of primitive hereditary blood feud? Are not our independent national sovereignties already obsolete? Are we not sick from centuries of mutual slaughter, heedless of our Cassandras, and only to be rescued from pursuing Furies by refuge in an orderly court of law where the wisdom of Pallas Athene can cast the deciding vote? Is the Oresteia of Aeschylus mere antiquarianism? Would that it were...
...tossed bumbling Premier U Nu out of office last March, the only thing that has kept him from rushing headlong into a program of industrial nationalization and farm collectivization has been the influence of tough, handsome Brigadier Aung Gyi. Last week the brakes were off. After a long feud with leftist members in the 17-man Revolutionary Council, Aung Gyi "most respectfully" asked Strongman Ne Win "to relieve me of the various duties to which I have been assigned...