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...including "nationhood" as an "inextricable" component of "Jewishness," TIME gave wider circulation to the erroneous claims that Jews automatically-by virtue of their religion-possess a second nationality...
...more different men could hardly be imagined. There was Charles de Gaulle, soldier, statesman, and symbol of a nation's pride, who once wrote that a great leader must "possess something indefinable, mysterious." And there was Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the boy from the drug store in Huron, S. Dak., who likes to say that a politician must "never forget he's just one of the folks." Yet in their meeting last week amid the Louis XV antiques of Paris' Elysee Palace, the French President and the U.S. Vice President got on quite nicely together...
Thimann concluded that two factors are essential to all creative activity: constant practice and self-discipline. "Don't blame anyone else if you let your creative energy die," he said. "There is a certain obligation which devolves on those who possess creativity; they must exercise...
...sale of the MTA yards, the Memorial Drive underpasses, HSA scandals, general education discontent, parietal skirmishes, the football season,--here certainly is the basic foundation of Harvard history. Replete even with the class struggle between students and administration, each Class can possess only a frail superstructure of events which it can recall as truly...
Like Chicago, Baltimore does not possess overwhelming hitting, but they do have a few full-fledged stars. Brooks Robinson was named last year's most valuable player after a brilliant season in which he hit .317, belted 28 homers, and knocked in 118 runs. John "Boog" Powell could be one of the coming young stars in the league. Only 23, he hit 39 homers and batted .290 last year...