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Others might count him out and declare his remarriage to be a hopeless liability, but Rocky insisted that he was in the race to stay. And though eager to bring down Barry Goldwater, he fired away, as a good Republican should, at the Democrats instead. He had three things against the Kennedy Administration, he said: "Its failure to stimulate the American economy ... its failure to preserve the strength and the unity of the free world and the vitality of its alliances, and its failure to understand and meet the menace of Communism...
Bernard Malamud is a poet of the victim. Not the tragic or the hopeless victim, but the absurd victim. In his stories, fate is clearly placable, but his heroes never get the hang of it. They make fools of themselves instead, and, by robbing themselves of dignity, they become somehow more poignantly human...
They were wrong. Unable to contain a Harvard offense that had at times this year been non-existent, Princeton fell. Harvard's win brought hopeless csonfusion to the Ivy standings. The Tigers still lead, but now Harvard has an excellent chance of ultimate victory...
...seemed pretty hopeless. Quite a while ago, Rocky asked onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Len Hall to manage his campaign -and got promptly turned down. Then Rocky turned to Connecticut's Meade Alcorn, another former national chairman, and an old Dartmouth classmate. Alcorn waited more than a month to give his answer-which was no. Last week the Rockefeller people said that they were canvassing the Midwest for a campaign manager...
Died. Dr. George Guttman Ornstein, 71, chest specialist who, as medical director of Staten Island's Sea View Hospital from 1931 to 1955, tried dozens of drugs for tuberculosis, finally in 1952 directed the testing of two newly-developed isoniazids on 92 seemingly hopeless patients, saved every one, a breakthrough that put the doctor out of a job when Sea View and other TB hospitals closed for lack of patients; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...