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...with eagerness and naivete, was both sad and stirring. As the 101st's former commander-Ambassador Maxwell Taylor-was quick to point out, it will take far more than fighting spirit for the U.S. to succeed in Viet Nam. Hovering over the bay in a helicopter prior to his final departure for Washington, Taylor watched his old outfit land, then issued a soldierly warning. The Communist Viet Cong, he said, is "an enemy who is shrewd, well-trained, and with the guile of the American Indian during his best days...
...Adlai Stevenson lay in state in Washington's National Cathedral prior to final funeral services in Illinois this week, millions around the world mourned him, and eulogies poured out by the score. Perhaps he wrote his own epitaph when, on the evening of Nov. 3, 1952, before the presidential ballots had been cast, he summed up: "I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forthrightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled...
...market has been a surprisingly poor forecaster of postwar economic swings. It did not decline markedly before the slumps of 1949 or 1953, and it actually rose before the recession in 1957; it did, however, drop sharply prior to the 1960 recession. Stocks crashed in 1962, but the economy scarcely paused. There is a point when a deep and lengthy market drop can induce businessmen and consumers to save instead of spend, thus precipitating a recession. Washington's economic policymakers do not believe that matters have yet reached that danger point, and, if talk can do the job, they...
...collided with an overriding right-privacy in marriage. In a judicial sonnet, Douglas extolled marriage as "a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred . . . an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions...
...there is evidence that graduate-student teaching leaves something to be desired. Many departments permit first-year graduate students to teach sections without any prior instruction in how to teach. Thrown back on memories of their own high school or college teachers, the grad students must rely on their intuition to become good teachers. If some succeed, student reaction suggests that the majority do not. "The section men either make or break it," this year's Confidential Guide said of the College's largest course. "Last year, for the most part, they broke it." The Guide is dotted with courses...