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AAAAS members have been proud of the Journal since it first came out; they are now working on its fourth issue. Dean Monro commends the Journal as "a distinguished and important magazine. It is attractive and intelligent. It hits on issues that help people understand what is going...
...Council, with the help of Mrs. Bunting and her aides, made an even greater mistake. Not only did they not approve the committee's recommendations, but they failed to give them a fair hearing. The committee met five times to debate, consider, and write their recommendations. They heard testimony from several students and administrators on the merits of the College's housing plans. They went so far as to survey the College on some questions. And after all this effort, which consumed the time of not only the student members of the committee, but such respected Faculty members as Giles...
This was probably better prophecy than analysis. But the Album had gotten hold of something. The freshman Class of '42 couldn't help but feel itself at the tail end of a dimly understood upheaval. If only a few things were substantially changed that year, everything, suddenly, was under scrutiny and attack; the reports and the headlines almost tripped over each other...
They caught Curley at his headquarters, writing his convention speech. "What schools are you from?" Curley asked. They told him "God help you," he replied, and went back to his speech...
...their subjects. George Washington's ivory false teeth; Gladstone's predilection for reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device too far. For eleven days, Bishop tagged the President's heels-even into...