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...talent hunt's loudest cheerleaders, Harvard's Dean Monro calls the progress "extraordinary." But he is deeply concerned that colleges are not doing their part. He wants them to "stop making scholarship awards, for embellishment purposes, to well-off students." He also thinks that professors should haunt "submerged" schools with the same tenacity as football coaches. "Why should 300 college representatives visit New Trier High School each year and hardly any, except coaches, visit the big downtown Chicago high school, only 20 miles away...
...most successful politician.'' said Theodore Roosevelt, "is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice." By last week Presidential Candidates Nixon and Kennedy had said pretty much all there was to say, and had said it-with the aid of the ubiquitous microphone and the frequently repeated speech-in the loudest of voices. On Nov. 8, the nation would know which one had plumbed the hopes and fears of America more deeply. The preelection arithmetic (see box) ten days before the balloting indicated that it was Kennedy who had hit most...
...though the Senator was hailed in New York, his crowds here were more curious than committed. Repeated- he was greeted with cries of "Nixon, as well as with outstretched The loudest cheers came from people--the ones wearing "If I 21, I'd Vote For Kennedy" buttons. And yet, when the Senator called for in "moving this country forward the looks of undefined expectation to smiles, and voters cheered too, depending mainly on a vigorous going of the New Deal spirit, Kennedy raising the question of a decline in prestige...
...landed in Chicago for the big day, Richard Nixon ran slam-bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened...
...airline officials feel that Quesada's firm hand has helped make U.S. aviation smoother and better-run. Says Eastern Air Lines President Malcolm MacIntyre: "A.L.P.A. used to be one of the loudest complainers about not being able to get decisions under the old setup. Now it wants FAA decisions to be subject to CAB review. That's a sure way to get no decisions...