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...Port Jefferson...
...governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that by century's end, one concrete conurbation will reach...
...Harvard Law-Graduate School Democratic Club has elected the following officers for the coming year: Robert I. Ronka, 2L, or North Hollywood, Calif., president; James D. Conahan, 1L, of Shenandoah, Penn., vicepresident; James M. Klebba, 2L, of Jefferson City, Mo., treasurer; Robert L. Griffin, 1L, of Elmira Heights, N.Y., corresponding secretary; and Manny Rouvelas, 1L, of Seattle, Wash., recording secretary...
Captain Dinny Adams (number one) drubbed Carter Hall, 15-10, 15-7, 16-15; sophomore Jose Gonzalez (two) routed Gary Jefferson, 15-6, 15-2, 15-7; undefeated sophomore Rick Sterne humbled Peter Rosden...
...office will provoke reverberations of the old Jeffersonian belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...