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...students have been chosen by local school principals. As preparation, they have had to read Adler's latest book, Six Great Ideas. Most found it rough going. "I had a dictionary in one hand," giggles Gunston School Junior Sandy Luna. "I learned a lot of new words like proclivity." The six ideas, handled in six two-hour sessions: Truth. Goodness. Beauty. Liberty. Equality. Justice. What they are engaged in is nothing less than a moral philosophy marathon, and at first the students seem cowed. Less than 15 minutes into the opening session, when Adler asks for questions about truth...
Half a dozen graduates of Washington's now defunct Gunston Hall school for girls got together last week to celebrate the 27th birthday of their friend and classmate Margaret Truman. The night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...
...Marg" has a lot to tell her girl friends these days. She has come a long way since she first arrived at Gunston Hall 17 years ago as the obscure daughter of a freshman Senator from Missouri. In those days Margaret's classmates sometimes twitted her about the "silent Senator" who never opened his mouth on Capitol Hill. Margaret herself, a competent scholar and an indifferent athlete, got scant attention from her contemporaries-until, one day at recess, they discovered that she could hit a higher note and hold it longer than anyone present...
Before and after Belvoir's review, the center's recruits worked hard at their trades. On pine-rimmed Gunston Cove, a ponton outfit in dungarees and hip boots got its first look at its equipment, blinked when its officer-instructor said: "If you aren't handy with it, one day you may get shot." Farther down the shore, a purification outfit ran off drinking water, checked its chlorinated product in test tubes. Off in the woods camoufleurs practiced hiding barracks buildings under false roofs, pine boughs, strips of brown flannel. Elsewhere on Belvoir's rolling, wooded...
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