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Some quit. They are frequently high school standouts from the Mid-west who always thought of colleges in terms of football teams, and who come to Harvard--a new horizon. They find the exciting display of academic purpose too inviting...
...Toured Horizon. Kennedy's first stop is Paris where, in Charles de Gaulle, he will encounter a friend who may pose more difficult problems than most enemies. When De Gaulle was asked what he wished to discuss, he reportedly gave the grandiose reply: "Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America." The Paris talks will undoubtedly be a tour of the horizon. No settlement of differences can be expected because the time is too short and the divergence of views too great. What De Gaulle is essentially after is a greater voice for France in the top councils of the West...
...each island, there always seems to be still another island beyond the horizon. But islands are not the only areas to exert a strange drawing power. In tourism as in geopolitics, the great land masses have a vast strategic pull. If there is a mystique of the island, there is also a mystique of the continent. While some travelers are magnetically attracted by the Demote speck on the map and by the isolation of surrounding ocean, others are drawn by the large, solid patches and the isolation of the landlocked interior. To them, Africa is perhaps the most challenging tourist...
...blaze of Alan Shepard's Redstone rocket was a bright light on a dark, cold war horizon. It was a first step in John...
...last lines ("evil one," etc.) are painfully close to that brilliant parody of a modern translation of the Twenty-third Psalm by William Harlan Hale, currently the managing editor of Horizon...