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...Civil War. Former Governor Phillip H. Hoff has a good chance of ending the Republican streak, His opponent, incumbent Republican Winston Prouty, is a lacklustre, lukewarm Nixon backer. Hoff is a vibrant, energetic figure who was a popular governor and a leader of the movement for a peace plank in the Democratic platform at the national convention...
...Jersey's Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. In 1968, while teaching at Saint Paul's in New Hampshire, he became a leader in the McCarthy for President drive there. He served on the Platform Committee of the Democratic National Convention in 1968, where he fought for the minority peace plank on Vietnam. Last year, he attended Harvard School of Education...
Room 5 in Hollis Hall is under lock and key until later this month, when members of the Class of '74 will break it in all over again. Sunlight falls across the bare desk and plank floorboards like giant, felled sequoias. Ralph Waldo Emerson lived there in 1820, and he lives again these days, as does Henry David Thoreau in Hollis 23, where he roomed a decade later. Two doors down from him lived the early 20th century philosopher Santayana. John Hoyer Updike '54 spent freshman year in Hollis...
...midst of financial crisis, top executives are often forced to walk the plank. Stuart T. Saunders was ousted as boss of Penn Central. Bernard Cornfeld was pushed out of his I.O.S. mutual-fund complex. The latest to go is James J. Ling, who built Ling-Temco-Vought into a conglomerate with sales last year of $3.75 billion...
...count among some New York schoolchildren fell dramatically after their warts were painted with chemically inert dyes identified as effective medication. Barber also discounts feats of strength under hypnosis, such as the ability of a man to make his body so rigid that he can be stretched like a plank between two chairs. "Practically all normally awake persons can remain suspended between two chairs while supported only by the head and ankles," Barber says...