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Freshmen in the alpine team, none of whom have had much prior racing experience, demonstrated their potential in this year's New England College Cup Slalom. Dick Raines finished 12th in the slalom and Scott Johnson finished in the top 20 in both events. Oggie Ross, Mike Herter and Bryn Evensen also turned in good performances...
This theme of "impersonal warfare" was stressed throughout the first day of hearings. Eric Herter, VVAW coordinator for the three-day investigation, said in his opening remarks that "We have been participants in the new forms of war which are to replace the unpopular struggle of infantry patrol against guerilla band. Replace it with a greater atrocity than a hundred My Lais--the systematic destruction of thousands of innocent persons, of entire cultures by an automated electronic and mechanical death machine whose killing will be one-sided, unseen, and universal...
...Lais. It will not produce press exposes, sickening photographs, film footage on the 6 o'clock news, American casualties, veteran's testimony or trials. It can be sustained indefinitely, in the political calculation of the administration, without exciting great opposition or indignation on the part of the American public," Herter said...
...repudiated the Eisenhower era. Early in 1961, Ike, at 70, the oldest President in history, rode with Kennedy, the youngest elected President, down Pennsylvania Avenue. "The vitality of the man!" exclaimed J.F.K. his first night in office. "It stood out so strongly there at the Inauguration. There was Chris Herter, looking old and ashen. There was Allen Dulles, gray and tired. There was Bob Anderson, with his collar seeming two sizes too large on a shrunken neck. And there was the oldest of them all, Ike?as healthy and ruddy and as vital as ever. Fantastic...
...whole administration reeks of the Nixon of the fifties. Old, self-made businessmen will run the domestic affairs, old hard-line diplomats will run the foreign policy, and a slicked-up press operation will carry the old Christian Herter ideology of secrecy one step further. Nixon promised in his campaign to remember the forgotten American. Few people suspected then that he meant the forgotten millionaire businessman Americans...