Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yardlings were equally successful as they romped, 63:31. Harvard swept the freestyles at 50,200, and 500 yards, and also took the top two places, in the dive, individual medley, and butterfly. Victors for the Crimson were Andy Huff, Paul Horyitz, Phil Johnson, Dan Kobick, Dave Sliver, and Bob Taylor...
...National Science Foundation has turned down Harvard's request for an increase in its 1969 allotment of NSF funds, which was cut sharply as a part of President Johnson's $6 billion budget reduction...
...Eliot, or W. C. Williams, or now by confessionalism. What is so remarkable about Wilbur is the way in which he belongs to other ages than his own, without ignoring the crises of the present. In a rare political poem he read at Harvard, Wilbur spoke of President Johnson's less than gracious response to a portrait he commissioned; "Wait, sir, and see how time will render you,/ Who talk of vision but have no sight." "The Marginal Way," a poem about the dying capacity for celebration, confessed "the time's fright within me," alluding to Auschwitz, and knew some...
...within the party and by the Democrats' defeat in the November elections. In Arizona, for instance, the Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated on the state level," said Richard Wilks, a Pheonix lawyer who heads the Arizona NDC. "Well, after November, there's just no applecart left." The conservatives are weak in Arizona and are searching for attractive candidates for lower offices, which the new liberals...
Lowenstein's plan to try to dump President Johnson was received as the mad plan of a New York professor-lawyer during the fall of 1967; he is now a Congressman from Long Island whom most "humanist liberals" and experienced political observers like David Halberstam regard as a responsible national leader...