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Little Olympics. Next week Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his family will also leave on a brief vacation-of a somewhat different sort. With their four older children, Bobby and Ethel will travel west to Washington to fish, hike, and then camp out in the Olympic Mountains ("America's last frontier"). They have trained for the trip by frequent games of touch football (and in Ethel's case, by immersion tests in the Kennedy swimming pool); they may also be accompanied by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who may not be a touch footballer but knows...
Rockefeller wiped it out with the help of an unpopular-but fiscally wise-tax hike of $277 million. Every year he has balanced his budget, and has steadily reduced the state's debt service charges from $53 million to $40 million a year...
...with James Joyce or William Butler Yeats. She was invited often to the salon of Gertrude Stein, but spent most of the time in the corner, gossiping-about what, she does not say-with Alice B. Toklas. When that masterful raconteur Norman (South Wind} Douglas asked her to hike with him across Italy, Bryher thought of the disgrace of failure-and said no. Introduced to Andre Gide, Bryher had so little to say that the Great Man cut short the interview by autographing a copy of his latest novel and, in obvious relief, rushed away...
...Inflation psychology. Buyers had gone into the market in expectation of continued inflation, but recent events, capped by President Kennedy's intervention in the steel price hike, destroyed this prospect...
...Crimson Snit. This has many professors in a snit, and they recently found a voice in the student-run Harvard Crimson. In six scathing editorials, the Crimson blamed Pusey for everything from this year's last-minute 10% hike in room rents to silence on such vital issues as whether Harvard College should expand, how it should revamp general education, and why the university has not exploited federal aid like "the rising stars of American education, such as Berkeley and Michigan." In the Crimson lens, Pusey emerged as aloof, inarticulate, unable to "make relevant decisions." In its most chilling...