Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff went fishing in the ocean and returned emptyhanded, they'd probably blame it on a lack of available fish. In truth, there is no shortage of young men; it's just that with its reluctance to change with the times, the military is able to attract only 13% of the country's youth. Changing of the hair regulations alone would probably attract millions more into the armed forces...
...University finds difficulty in accepting the reality that we are out of the days of Hamilton Fish. The promise of athletic excellence that McLaughlin wants can't be achieved easily, because the great athletes who went Ivy in the early 1900s now go Big Ten or Pac Eight...
...different as Hamilton Fish and Al McGuire are, they have a basic common element: they are totally committed to being only themselves. They assume no facades to appease other's feelings...
...Fish lives today with the same ethics he preached forty years ago. Though his expressions of anti-Communist sentiments and gratuitous-sounding pitches for black equality make the '70s children uncomfortable, he remains constant to his world. He is totally committed to preserving the America he idolizes...
...ideas. Harvard is grappling with the problems that reconciliation involves. But to think that the troubles will just go away is to live deluded, and McGuire was saying last night that we have to beware of the compromise ethic that brings not only delusion, but frustration. Both McGuire and Fish are products of avoiding such compromises; it is our turn to judge if we can live with such extremes...