Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still leading at the three-mile mark, the wiry Englishman gave way to teammate Doug Hardin and Yalie Frank Shorter and eventually faded to seventh as Hardin and Shorter staged a step for step struggle for the lead...
...five crucial starters in, Harvard's win was complete, but McCurdy had a few more delights to savor. The Harvard coach likes nothing better than beating Yale's mentor Bob Giegengack, and yesterday the Crimson rubbed it in a bit as sixth and seventh men Bob Stempson and Frank Sulloway finished before five Elis had broken the tape...
Pernicious Foreigner. Buckley's conservatism is very much a family affair. His father, William Frank Buckley Sr., who made millions in oil in Mexico and later in Venezuela, was understandably devoted to unfettered free enterprise. His mother, Aloise, was from a deep-rooted family of New Orleans, where she acquired a distinct distaste for importunate Yankees and their progressive ideas. The family conservatism was, if anything, strengthened when the elder Buckley was thrown out of Mexico as a "pernicious foreigner" in 1921 and his holdings expropriated. "It gave him," says his daughter Priscilla, "a lifelong distrust of revolutionary...
...also the money. Thanks to $125,000 from the family plus $300,000 he raised elsewhere, he was able to start National Review in 1955, a publication that provided him with a voice. It also served as a rallying point for other conservatives. To Review came Russell Kirk and Frank S. Meyer, Whittaker Chambers and James Burnham. From the outset, they quarreled snappishly on its pages. Traditionalists like Kirk, who value society over the individual, battled libertarians like Meyer, who emphasize the individual over society. "I pretty much had to insist on the relevance of both points of view," says...
McCurdy said that both the Tigers and the Eli have a few strong men, but that their depth is questionable. In Yale's last race over their home course, Frank Shorter, Steve Bittner, Bob Yahn and Carl Pierce all broke the 4.45 mile course record. It is possible that the Blue may have some trouble with Harvard's 5.3 mile layout...