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...outstanding basketball player, Jordan received an athletic scholarship to Pittsburgh and, even though he had never played the sport before, went out for football at Pitt. Pitt football was rough business in those days and, unless a man had been brought in for the purpose of playing under Pop Warner, he was not permitted to go out for the team. Jordan had worked his way into the athletic picture with his ability as a basketball player, and since the authorities wanted to keep him around for that reason they allowed him to try out for football...
West did crash through for several sizeable advances and Jordan stated after the korkout that West's greater offectiveness from the single-wing may be a result of the fact that he prefers to get the ball directly. Jordan cited the case of an outstanding Pitt fullback who had little success when he transfered to Army with its indirect passing from center...
...noted historian, Commager has taught in the past at New York University and at Cambridge University in England, where he was Pitt Professor of American History. His speech Friday on "The Pragmatic Necessity for Freedom" will reflect the views expressed in his latest book. "The American Mind," a study of the dominance of pragmatic thinking in modern American Culture...
...chosen envoy was William Pitt Amherst, Earl of Arakan and nephew of famed soldier of the King, Lord Jeffrey Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of England" would persuade "Oriental barbarism" to grant commercial privileges. But the high & mighty mandarins who escorted him ashore and inland to Peking soon demolished his hope...
...today in the U.S. and other parts of the free world are engaged in a great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...