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Then off he went again, bounding over and around machinery, leaving his staff to wind its listless way through noisy clumps of the newly converted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campaigner Volpe--Diminutive Dynamo | 10/21/1964 | See Source »

...factors weakening the present system of General Education is that students are entering Harvard with varying levels of preparedness and many are finding Gen Ed courses unchallenging. Part of the problem is that too many Gen Ed courses are simply listless additions to the catalogue. But another difficulty is that students can only place out of Gen Ed on very rigid terms: only those students with sophomore standing may be exempted from Gen Ed courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Towards a Reformulation | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...long fall-and fast. Hank Bauer's Orioles simply lost 13 out of 26 games, while the New York Yankees were winning 19 out of 22, including the last eleven in a row. After a listless sojourn in third place, Yogi Berra's pinstriped legions sniffed the green stuff and snapped to attention. So lame that his teammates winced every time he hit the ball, Mickey Mantle, that matchless pro, was still batting .303, with 33 homers and 102 R.B.I.s. Catcher Elston Howard went on a sudden streak, hitting safely in twelve straight games, and Roger Maris perked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tale of Two Cities | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

While Rauh horsetraded deftly behind closed doors, the Party's Washington office stumbled through a convention-eve public relations campaign. Foreseeing a listless convention, Party leaders had long realized that the "Mississippi question" would receive inordinate press coverage in late August. Yet, inexplicably, the Party never developed an orderly publicity drive...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

While Rauh horsetraded deftly behind closed doors, the Party's Washington office stumbled through a convention-eve public relations campaign. Foreseeing a listless convention, Party leaders had long realized that the "Mississippi question" would receive inordinate press coverage in late August. Yet, inexplicably, the Party never developed an orderly publicity drive...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

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