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IfMarkings isn't international law, neither is it-as one might expect-history. Auden remarks in a sympathetic foreward on the relative absence of references to politics and international relations. Hammarskjold, while writing Markings, rose from a brilliant economics student to become Secretary-General of the UN; yet he always subordinates external events to the moral doubts and problems that they engendered. Rather than describing, say, the circumstances of the Congo crisis, he prefers to reflect on the loneliness of power and the necessity of winning the right to be obeyed...
...book, which was suggested by President Kennedy, will come out in December. It contains a foreward by President Johnson and an introduction by Arthur M. Schiesinger, Jr. '33, and includes a color portrait of each president...
...faced the camera, Billy Graham's face betrayed no boredom or fatigue. The enunciation was precise, his tone not monotonous, but rolling. In fact, he seemed excited as he leaned foreward, his eyes trained on the camera with the same intense, steady glare he turns on his audiences during a speech, on a listener during an interview...
...married to the daughter of McCarthy's archfoe, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, did not exactly endear him to the Senator. Neither did the fact that McGeorge Bundy, though a Republican himself, had edited Dean Acheson's state papers, The Pattern of Responsibility, and written a foreward pointedly rebutting McCarthy's diatribes...
...Bailey's report. "What we are primarily concerned with is the health and vigor of Botany itself and what Harvard with its particular set of resources can contribute best toward this central aim,"Paul H. Buck, then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in his foreward to the plan. In January, 1946, with the endorsement of the Arboretum staff, the Corporation agreed that the Bailey Plan would further these ends...