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...Harvard armada had a pleasant vacation, edging the Naval Academy on Easter Sunday to capture the prestigious Owen Trophy for the third time in the last four years. Senior Tom Reps sailed home with low-point honors as the meet's top skipper, as he and classmate Terry Neff bested the rest of the 12-team field in the whitecaps off West Point...
...ROLE OF GOVERNMENT. Ultimately, in a democracy all must work together. The Prime Minister will have to be the guiding factor . . . Human society must be human, not a mixture of animals, and we are 90% animals today, which is not a very pleasant thought but it is a fact. Passions belong only to animals, and if human material is superior, then we have to control passions, which should be used for proper purposes, just as steam has to be utilized for energy, not for scalding people. Government will have to set an example in its own actions...
...program despite these difficulties, Schlesinger has holed himself up in a bright, pleasant White House suite only a 30-second walk from the Oval Office. There he is surrounded by charts showing excessive U.S. use of energy (Americans burn approximately twice as much fuel per person as West Germans, who have roughly comparable living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger hired them...
...play are good, and add some breadth to the book. By themselves, his narrative of a sailing cruise down the Baja coast or of the mental torment involved in sliding down a swinging rope in his grandfather's huge hay barn don't say much of anything, but provide pleasant interludes between the fights Robert has with his father...
Margaret R. Cowperwaithe '79, who worked on the year-end crew last year, said yesterday that regardless of the system used to pick the workers, the job was "not all that pleasant. It was pretty lonely and depressing right after you've gotten through finals...