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...would be ironic if Nelson Rockefeller, having travelled so far and sacrificed so many of his earlier liberal beliefs in order to obtain the Republican nomination, saw it denied to him because of something which had happened in his state administration...
William James came to Harvard as an undergraduate in 1861. He never managed to obtain an A.B. degree, nor did he ever earn a Ph.D. Forty-six years after his arrival he resigned his chair in the philosophy department. During the intervening time James taught in four different fields, suffered from numerous physical ailments, and was plagued by a period of intense depression and despair. Wide oscillation in mood and great restlessness gave him a peculiar aura of unpredictability. He was forever darting off to Europe and voicing doubts of his capacity for sustained work...
...Miro was told that the U.S. remains determined to oust Castro (presumably by economic strangulation), but that the U.S. will not permit its policies to be controlled by exile "war parties." In acid Spanish, Hurwitch told Miro that the exiles must fall into line or "no Cuban exile will obtain access to U.S. Govern ment officials again...
...Cardinal Cushing flatly denied Rock's contention. He said in The Pilot, the newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, that several of the book's statements were "theologically incorrect and certainly misleading," and criticized Rock for falling to obtain an imprimatur, a statement by his local bishop that the book was free from doctrinal or moral error...
...George McGovern of South Dakota. McGovern is a Stevenson Democrat quite literally: it was Stevenson's '52 campaign that inspired him to quit his position as professor of History and Government at Dakota Wesley, and to become the party's executive secretary. By intensive campaigning, he managed to obtain two terms in the U.S. House, a close loss to Karl Mundt in 1960, and his victory, "not an overwhelming mandate," over Joe Bottum last year...