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WHEN Harvard students stormed the faculty club to protest the invasion of Cambodia in 1970, one of the members bothered by the ruckus was John T. Dunlop, who was dining with his wife Dorothy. Whatever his feelings about the military action halfway round the world, "Tiger" Dunlop was not amused by the student action on campus. Assured by a waiter that the protesters were being chased out by the club's manager, the burly Dunlop growled: "Does he need any help...
...beginning of the long erosion of congressional power. Some current suggestions for reform have an unmistakable whiff of Cannonism to them, notably Carl Albert's plan to exact "loyalty oaths" from new Democratic members of the Rules Committee. Cannon himself would have been horrified by such halfway measures. When he retired from politics in 1923 (and became TIME'S first cover subject), TIME summed him up as "the supreme dictator of the Old Guard. Never did a man employ the office of Speaker with less regard for its theoretical impartiality...
Catton remembers his early days, when the present was pleasant and the future was not to be doubted. "Mercifully," he writes, "we could not know that when it finally came, the future would frighten us more than anything else on earth. We were at halfway house; the quarters were good, the grounds were pleasant, and there was a fine view of the surrounding country. What more could we want...
...brief run-through, the students tried again, and now they brought the piece to life. Satisfied, the visiting professor dropped back to his seat on the floor, extracted a cigarette from a leather case, and listened to a student wind quintet attack Irving Fine's Partita. Halfway through the first movement, Bernstein leaped to his feet again. "Tune up!" he cried. "My God, tune up!" While the musicians trembled, he went on: "This piece is whimsical. It's full of surprises. It should be played with energy and bounce." When the quintet failed to pick up, Bernstein raised...
Most schools teach G.L.M., but some do not because it is expensive to stock skis in all those different lengths. As a compromise between price and proficiency, many areas are adopting the American Teaching Method. The A.T.M. skiers learn on a single pair of 5-ft. skis, about halfway between the shortest G.L.M. equipment and the 7-ft. skis that experts...