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There was, of course, more political substance to Saltonstall's career. He introduced and saw enacted the first compulsory automobile insurance bill in the country; as a young boy vacationing out West he heard William Jennings Bryan speak; he commissioned the first political poll in New England for his 1938 gubernatorial campaign. And as governor, he strove always for balanced budgets, and campaigned primarily on that issue as well as his own integrity. In the Senate, Saltonstall served as the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and later was its ranking Republican member...
Although Smith has not yet heard from the publishers of "Who's Who in America," she said she would like to work with the famous "capsule biographers" on a permanent basis. "I'm fascinated by the compilation of a directory," she added...
Tourism slumped for a variety of reasons. Cheap charter flights have drawn Americans to other exotic places. Tourists heard rumors of coups (that never took place) and decided to stay away. A few heavily publicized murders of American tourists sharpened the business decline. To allay fears, the government has reinforced safety, particularly on Highway 15, which runs south from Nogales, with troops and "green angels"-trouble cars that patrol the roads to help travelers...
...Sackler was elusively sociable, passing from group to group and pausing in each just long enough to make an appropriate comment. These conversational pebbles rippled through each social pool they were tossed into; returning to Tao'chi's peonies half an hour after first passing them, you heard those still standing in front of the painting repeating, to those passing by, Sackler's comparison of Tao'chi's flowers with a Mondrain painting of chrysanthemums "that he has at home." The point of the anecdote seemed to have vanished, however, somewhere in this chic game of telephone. Real connoisseurship...
Government concentrators from Littauer to Leverett heaved a collective sigh of relief Thursday when they heard Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 will be replaced as department chairman after this academic year by the amiable Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government...