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...Council must get to work immediately on a project that can capture the imagination of all the students." He told the Council that "fast action is needed" if the HCUA is ever to assume a place of significance on the Harvard campus. "Otherwise this Council will quickly sink into oblivion," he observed...
...telling his rapt listeners what will happen to them after a Communist takeover: "They'll take a wide-bore revolver with a soft-nosed bullet and place it at the nape of your neck to blow your brain and your face into a bloody and chaotic oblivion...
While his father-in-law, William E. Stevenson, 61, a longtime president of Oberlin College, was slated for the prestigious, $27,500-a-year ambassadorship to the Philippines, New Jersey's lame-duck Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 53, was headed for New Frontier oblivion. Unsummoned to Washington despite the attempts of top New Jersey Democrats to land him a job with the Administration, the former Phillipsburg lawyer-who took a fatal hesitation step before jumping on the 1960 Kennedy bandwagon-announced that he would be returning to private practice. As Meyner himself once confided, "The Irish Mafia doesn...
...Britain's so-called Angry Young Men are already half forgotten, their own limitations are the principal cause, but they have been given a forceful, added shove toward oblivion by the work of a new writer whose themes are quieter and deeper. Already hailed in London as one of the major playwrights of the decade, 31-year-old Harold Pinter has come to Manhattan with The Caretaker (TIME, Oct. 13), the biggest serious hit of the new season...
These delegates were wrong, of course. If Dag Hammarskjold had been no more than an efficient administrator, his organization--and theirs, and all the world's--might have quietly sunk into oblivion in the troubled waters of the world. That the United Nations still exists today, that after 15 years it offers achievement and potential far beyond that of any previous international organization, is due in no small part to the successes and ideals of an international public servant who lost his life in its service...