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...nice guy, Goheen has had an incredibly intense academic career. Born in Vengurla, India of two distinguished Presbyterian medical missionaries, he lived in the Orient for 15 years before entering Lawrenceville. At Princeton, Goheen studied Classics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, won the coveted M. Taylor-Pyne Honor prize, played varsity soccer, was president of the Intra-mural Athletic Association, and graduated with highest honors...
...prexy of Manhattan's Barnard College, Mrs. Millicent C. Mclntosh, presented a citation to one of her opposite numbers from the Orient, minute Mrs. Kaoru Hatoyama, wife of Japan's Premier and head of Kyoritsu Women's College. Kaoru Hatoyama was on her way home from Moscow, where her ailing husband got crumbs from the Kremlin table in signing a decade-delayed peace treaty with the Russians...
...Such a title might be appropriate for a collection of poetry or perhaps some parables, but it is hardly a humble beginning for an essay. One has the strange sensation of being party to a Marlboro book sale where the theory of Yoga and the occult sciences of the Orient are neatly passed along in a hundred pages. This sense of condensation and over-simplification is furthered by the division of The Art of Loving into a section on the theory of love, and another on the practice of love. Fortunately Fromm has the good sense...
...more men like Henry Earl Diffenderfer-who will "beg if necessary" for the continuation of higher educational opportunities for a fine-spirited citizenry all but crushed by the mighty military machine of the U.S.A.-and our reputation in the Orient would be greatly enhanced...
...Cairo. Within hours of arrival. Nasser's government locked up a fourth British businessman on charges of spying against Egypt. The British embassy announced that 1,400 nationals, including half its staff's dependents, had been evacuated from Egypt "because of the present grave situation." The Orient Line shifted three liners from the Suez route to sail the long way around the Cape of Good Hope. In a saber-rattling speech that old Socialist, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, compared Nasser to Hitler and demanded "a very clear will to use force...