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...verging on suicide or nervous breakdown, at times incapable of dealing with potential threats to national security. Episodes of Richard Nixon, jabbering incoherently, or talking to paintings of past presidents at night in the White House have been widely reported. On the basis of his own first-hand observations, Price says he rejects these reports of Nixon as "being bonkers" during the final weeks of his presidency. Because of Nixon's unique ability to "departmentalize and compartmentalize" issues and ideas, Price mxintains that Nixon proved able to completely shut out his Watergate woes when considering affairs of state, right...
Since his undergraduate days, Sadow has been to every Harvard-Yale game. He supplements his first-hand knowledge of Harvard football by assiduously collecting articles and press clippings. He is especially devoted to the cause of freshman football. He points out that today will be the 95th time the Harvard and Yale freshmen have clashed. In that span, Harvard has won 44 games and Yale has won 44 games with six ties. "This is the rubber game," says Sadow...
...DECREASING interclass contact is an unhealthy development. First-hand observation of freshmen becomes impossible, so upperclassmen base their views of freshmen on stereotype and rumor. Are freshmen competitive, grade-hungry overachievers, or are they idyllic, innocent waifs who are "testing their wings"? No one can say for sure...
...prove, among other things, that students in the program become acquainted with the physical, social, economic and ecological "process of human settlement," Robert Brown, staff director of the New England River Basins Commission and a member of the National Education Development Committee of AIP, says. Students must also acquire first-hand experience with "the planning process" and the techniques of professional urban and regional planners...
...worked with Dr, Paul Flory, the scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work on penicillin. Ebert added that after World War II, he was stationed as a medical officer with the troops occupying Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb was dropped there. "I learned first-hand of the horrors of war," he said...