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Besides his methods and his staff, McGrath has contributed a myriad of improvements to Massachusetts of a more tangible nature--new positions, new facilities, new training programs, and new legislation; single spaced, the list of these contributions runs six and a half pages...
These and myriad other maritime sugarplums danced in the brains of weekend salts this week as the world's biggest boat show opened in Manhattan. The big lure, of course, was the boats themselves - 510 different models ranging in size from a 6-ft. pontoon knockabout to the 44-ft. Pacemaker power cruiser (with electric dishwasher, refrigerator, and two showers), in price from $69.50 for a sailing dinghy to $70,000 for a 42-ft. sport fisherman. Some of the highlights...
Turks Galore. Actually, more than anything else the agreement simply ratified the military's Dec. 20 "demi-coup." It did not restore or replace the High National Council, as the U.S. had demanded. Moreover the "solution," as usual, only papered over again South Viet Nam's myriad divisions. Even as it was being signed, word spread that a new coup of junior officers was becoming increasingly jealous of the Young Turks' swift promotions. Inevitably, they were dubbed "Baby Turks." Some of the brass, frustrated in their desire for power, were flirting with the Buddhists, who in turn...
Princely Ascetic. Are Tri Quang and the other Buddhist leaders naive or villainous, or both? Are they merely inconsistent in the grand Vietnamese fashion? Are they nationalists or Communist dupes? Whatever the answer, much of it lies embedded in the myriad traditions of a great faith?noble, puzzling to the West, durable yet widely decayed, and sharply challenged by the modern world...
...Truth by endeavoring to synthesize a liberal knowledge of natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities are welcome at Harvard." Nor, surely, does he blaze new intellectual trails by resolutely declaring his opposition to Harvard's degeneration into "an intellectual factory capable of nothing more than spewing out a myriad of narrow-minded technicians and pedants." Yet Mr. Welch's stirring prose seems informed by a basic misconception of the student's obligation...