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Kenneth Deitch '60, Kirkland coach, relies on three junior backs and a sophomore speedster for his offensive punch. Joe Gavin, Bruce Corker and Fred Golinko, all juniors, and Dave Black handle Kirkland's running chores. Deitch believes defense is paramont in the intrumural league. "A club that scores a touchdown and one half per game is very likely to win," he says...
...paper work springing from "the bureaucratic necessity that everyone has to write so much to justify his existence" (Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood), while working under an overall policy based on "the lowest anti-Communist denominator" (Professor Hans Morgenthau) with a surplus of "pedestrian people" (former Ambassador James Gavin) headed by a Secretary with an "irrevocably conventional mind" (Arthur Schlesinger...
...fifth cover story on post-Castro Cuba* and our second on Fidel since he came down from the hills and took over on the first day of 1959. In reporting this cover, as it happened, we did have a correspondent in Cuba-for a while. He is Gavin Scott, Canadian-born, Spanish-speaking chief of our Buenos Aires bureau, just back from his third visit to the island since 1962. This time the authorities tracked him down and packed him off, but not before he saw and heard enough to bring out a report full of new insights...
Himself Proclaimed. Rather than return to school, Gavin enlists in the air-defense service as a medical aide and is thrown among the rude, crude Irish whom he has never known-men who have not had jobs since the Depression. In a whirl of discovery, Gavin joins a Communist theater group, meets a Protestant minister who seems hep but actually is only homo, falls in love for a night with the pathetic and beautiful young wife of a slumming millionaire who had got her man by producing a virgo-intacta medical certificate...
When the first German bombers drone in over Belfast, Gavin is enthralled at the prospect of the adult world's destruction. "Come on, Hitler, blow up city hall" cries a leftist friend. "And Queen's University!" shrieks Gavin But in a qualm of conscience, he rushes back to the hospital for a 24-hour stint in the morgue, identifying and coffining the raid victims. Half-potted on hospital whisky, he grinds through the grisly work in a manner that wins admiration from doctors, medical students and even from his girl friend Sally. At the raid...