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...ungentlemanly complaint about one of their own, but the gentlemen of the Establishment rallied round. A review of the appointment was quietly undertaken. Some members of the council expressed reservations, but insisted that once proffered, the offer should not be rescinded. George Ball, the most persistent high-ranking dove within the Johnson Administration, came to the defense of his onetime adversary. Said Ball: "I am appalled by the McCarthyism of the left that is going on here. If we're going to go into this sort of personal denunciation, we're going to go through a very ugly...
Bouncing Quarter. In part, the military schools are victims of a bum rap; they have never been major training centers for the armed forces-though the Defense Department dutifully provides support for their military programs. Instead, their self-declared aim was to produce gentlemen. "We have always maintained that the military discipline provided the finest possible supplement to one's preparation for college and the challenges of life," the Kentucky Military Institute wrote its alumni before it became secularized as the Kentucky Academy. "Unfortunately, each year fewer people seem to accept this premise." Frank Miller, an official with...
...hard wooden chairs, and the average price for a yearling was closer to $5,000. The auctioneer's chant was only occasionally interrupted by Announcer Humphrey Finney. Eyeglasses perched precariously at the end of his nose, he chastised the audience in thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue, building purposefully to that inevitable climactic gavel rap: "Are you all through? At fifty-five hundred...
...West Germans hold firm to their refusal, as most I.A.T.A. members expect them to, some other airlines plan to put the proposed I.A.T.A. fare structure into effect anyway. But few executives believe that it would last for long. "Outside I.A.T.A., it is a gentlemen's agreement," says BOAC Canadian Marketing Manager Zachary Clark. "It would be hard to police, and the 'gentlemen' part would be put under a pretty severe strain...
...would think that Kate Millett or Germaine Greer were feeding the gentlemen their lines. More than 300 earnest women-ranging from Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Writer Gloria Steinem to Betty Smith, former vice chairman of Wisconsin Republicans-met in Washington last week to form a National Women's Political Caucus. Its goal: to seek out and promote candidates of either sex, preferably women, who will work to eliminate "sexism, racism, violence and poverty." And what was the reaction in San Clemente? Discussing a newspaper photograph of four of the caucus leaders, Secretary of State William Rogers remarked that...