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...sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid," he once said. "It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live." His will endured, but his strength finally faltered. Last week Eddie Rickenbacker died in Zurich, of a heart ailment, at the age of 82. In his final years he had remained spry, cantankerous and active, devoting much of his time to right-wing political causes. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin recalls seeing him disembark from a jetliner at Washington's Dulles Airport only a year ago, gruffly rejecting someone's offer to help...
...points out that at the placid Williams campus in the 1950s, there were no civil rights or antiwar protests to teach the meaning of ethics. "Values are not so much taught as caught. Without the experience it's pretty hard for the ethics to sink in. Your education is largely a game of intellectual volleyball...
...these rituals. For the seven years of his reign the Harvest Lord is honored with gifts, free labor, respect. After that, well, it's sheer happenstance, of course, but there don't seem to be any former Har vest Lords around, only an extra ordinary number of placid widows...
Details of Ned's downfall have no place in a review. They provide superior shivers and inevitably involve placid Mrs. Ranchwagon, Ned's mild suburban wife Beth. The beguiled reader concludes that Author Tryon should in deed turn serious, but there should be no complaint if he offers several more volumes of excellent nonsense before doing...
...Richard Nixon to be President, national forums seem a less appropriate focus for change. But local energies, like today's women's protest, and whatever difference exists between the consciousness of the Class of '73 and that of the classes of 10 or 50 years ago belie Commencement's placid tone. Richard Nixon has brought not a calm, but a smoldering and unresolved tension...