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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of his best writing and worst predictions. Strout makes no attempt to hide his choice in each contest, yet he still seems to revel in a good dogfight. The election between Kennedy, whom he loved, and Nixon, whom he loathed, was "wonderfully close." Never afraid to put his head on the chopping block of prognostication, Strout writes on November 1, 1948, "In a hopeless battle, (Truman) stayed game to the end, and is going down fighting." And on November 16, 1968: Nixon "will probably wind up Vietnam pretty quickly." Occasionally, however, Strout springs some real clairvoyance. In January...
...Boston University [B.U.] before a crowded press conference. His face is ashen and his teeth are gritted, but his voice never breaks as he makes point after point in firm, measured tones. As he pauses for emphasis, a student heckler interrupts to ask a pointed question. Silber whips his head around and shuts the student up with an ice-cold stare and a reminder that it is he, Silber, who is holding the press conference. Then, without losing pace, Silber plunges back into his statement, speaking in those same firm tones...
Leaning forward and speaking intensely, he asks, "So why should I hang my head and go around regretting what's happened? I'm damn pleased with what's happened. What I'm not pleased with is that there's a tiny element of this faculty that believes that they are permitted to lie about this institution...
...trial, and eventually the possibility of conducting a trial on neutral territory. Geneva, for instance, has the facilities for such a procedure and there the Shah would be able to get the kind of medical help his doctors would insist on. The possibility of putting on trial even a head of state would also, in the long run, be a sound legal policy which could make despotism less attractive and be a means of preventing extreme situations of this sort...
...butterfly events, newcomers Norma Barton and Kathleen McCloskey should head the Crimson charge. Kathy Davis and Terri Frick should give the squad needed depth in the individual medlies...