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...college man-stirring an ever more passionate debate on the rights and wrongs of 2-S, Selective Service's classification for draft deferment for students. The specific issue is whether grades should determine exemption, and consequently whether colleges should reveal low grades to draft boards. The loftier issue is whether simply being in college entitles a boy to avoid conscription...
...Goldwater's leaden leadership, must be almost completely remodeled and reorganized. Dean Burch, inexperienced and fanatically loyal to Barry's right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined-that they were not trustworthy. And on a loftier level, while the Republican Party has some outstanding and attractive potential presidential candidates among Governors (Romney, Scranton, et al.), a governorship no longer seems as strong a springboard to national office as it used to be. Increasingly, voters seem to want national experience and exposure in their national candidates...
Special Alliance. In Brazil, the last and greatest nation on his tour, De Gaulle had waxed loftier and more Delphic than ever. He spoke of the traditional bonds between the two countries, and then, alluding to some dark and distant Armageddon, cried: "I greet the Brazilian army as the ally, if need be, of the French forces, whatever may befall us. There will always be between us, I am sure, a special alliance." There were more immediate matters to discuss. The Brazilians having promised to compensate the former French owners of the Sāo Paulo-Rio Grande railroad nationalized...
...Loftier Level. In his loftier-level strategy talks with Humphrey, Johnson emphasized that he plans to devote most of his time to his White House job, playing the part of fulltime statesman. Only on key occasions, such as his Labor Day address this week in Detroit's Cadillac Square, would the President hit the campaign route...
Artists of loftier vocation expatriated themselves to study in England and to absorb the classic mastery of Renaissance portraiture. John Singleton Copley was one such, but before he left U.S. shores, he had already put together a masterly portrait gallery of some of his fellow Bostonians. His Portrait of Nathaniel Hard, a famed silversmith and engraver, stares back at the observer with a keen, curious, probing intensity that is uncannily lifelike. As John Adams said of Copley's portraits: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...