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Alarms have been sounded for nearly four years over the project's bad taste, but the debasement of a national landmark rolls on in Gettysburg, Pa., with no apparent means at hand to stop...
Hartman, who developed glaucoma and lost his sight at eight, decided early that he wanted to be a doctor. He left a school for the blind, re-entered public schools to prepare for medicine and graduated with honors from Gettysburg College. Getting into medical school was another matter; seven schools rejected him upon learning that he was blind. Finally, Temple accepted him after subjecting him to interviews by five physicians instead of the usual one. Says Dr. M. Prince Brigham, assistant dean: "We took David because he was a superior student who had accomplished as a biology major what many...
...Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense Department, which does not disclose the amounts or items and, like the GSA until now, may well have never bothered to add up what may have been spent on J.F.K.'s Hyannis Port home, Ike's Gettysburg farm or L.B.J.'s ranch...
...prelude to Nixon's oath-taking, the choir of the combined service academics rendered "America the Beautiful," during which cadets and Midshipmen recited portions of the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address...
...good. Many of their rivals in the N.C.A.A.'s small-college division-a category determined by the caliber of competition -have also had enough. Boston University, beaten 49-12 by the Hens this season, and Lafayette, downed 27-0, have already banished Delaware from their future schedules. Gettysburg, a 64-7 victim, wants out after 1973. New Hampshire Coach Jim Root was so stung by a 40-7 loss to Delaware last year that he left his job rather than "subject my team to that again." Says he: "They're absolutely overwhelming. They should play teams like Ohio...