Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuity in the upper echelons of Defense. A suave New York lawyer, polished at Groton and Yale, he is the son of the late Stanley B. Resor, the famed advertising man who headed J. Walter Thompson from 1916 to 1961. He came out of World War II a major with silver and bronze stars won in the Battle of the Bulge. A Republican, he has influential friends in both parties. Negotiator Cyrus Vance was his roommate at Yale Law School, and he is extremely close to Nixon Adviser William Scranton. While he displays the McNamara traits of super-efficiency...
...first blind student to go through Harvard, although he does predate the reading rooms in the basement of Emerson. They were finished in 1966, partially due to a study Hal did for the now defunct Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs. Hal was an English major, and lived in Adams House. He prefers using readers to Braille books or tapes; for himself, he finds readers faster and more flexible, and it is also a way of meeting new people -- a perennial problem for the blind. Harvard makes no special dispensation as to the science requirement. Hal took...
Charlie was an undergraduate at Amherst College, and is an enthusiastic alumnus of that school. A poly sci major and a fraternity member, he was the only blind student at Amherst. Unlike Harvard, Amherst appears to have an unwritten policy limiting the number of blind students they will accept. "They feel that they can't provide enough facilities to get more than one blind student through at any one time," Charlie said. "I worked closely with the freshmen dean, and talked with the Admissions Office. This is not a set policy--not in writing--but it is closely adhered...
...reaches college. David, only a freshman, is still in the process of adjusting to University life. Living in Wigglesworth, right in the Yard, he finds no difficulty in getting around with a cane, which he claims is both simpler and easier than a seeing eye dog. A prospective English major, David so far has been able to obtain most of the books he needs in Braille, and uses only one reader (a person who reads to a blind student) a week. He also makes use of Talking Books--a program sponsored by the Library of Congress which puts literature...
...with sordid problems in grubby environments. Needless to say, a confrontation between the Hippies and the Mafia offers Preminger a field day, and in my opinion, Skidoo is very great indeed. But Preminger is almost impossible to discuss. Most people hate his films--I think he's the only major American director working steadily today, and before I advance a tentative explanation or two, a couple of immediate points might be stated: Skidoo is hysterically funny, although many people will disagree and I'd be hard put to tell them specifically what in it was funny. Skidoo is superbly acted...