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At McKee, a tiny town in the Wilderness Trail country, Republican Senator Thruston Morton got out of a borrowed yellow Cadillac, mingled with tobacco-chewing men in bib overalls. It was beastly hot, and sweat dripped from Morton's face. He was gracious, but seemed much more reserved than...
On Politics. Some of De Gaulle's keener barbs have been aimed at the politicians who resisted his return to power in 1958. "Since a politician never believes what he says," he once mused, "he is absolutely nonplussed when he is taken at his word." At a Gaullist rally...
Benkhedda, 42, resembles his nickname, "M'sieu Tout le Monde" (Mr. Everybody). With a diffident manner and an emotionless voice, he is not the sort of charismatic figure usually found at the helm of revolutions. But he is a tough, machine-minded organization man who fought skillfully as a...
Three Issues. The strange case of Dr. Merriam involves a number of separate, if tangled, issues. Among them: > THEOLOGY. A self-styled "evangelical" Presbyterian, Merriam was called to the Broadway church because his theological views coincided with those of his predominantly conservative congregation. In doctrine, he adheres strictly to the...
Speaking will be: Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American and this year's Phi Beta Kappa orator; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; and Harvey Brooks, dean of the Engineering and Applied Physics faculty.