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Emerging as a starter just this season, Casto or "Dirty John" as his teammates know him, has risen through the Harvard program in the traditional manner. Taking no shortcuts, he scratched and clawed his way up from the freshman and J.V. teams to play, behind Tom "Bat" Masterson last year...
...Three of my roommates, including Ron Jellison who is an assistant with the freshman team, have all been associated with the Harvard football program at some time, and this year is as much for them as for me," Casto said. "They did not have the opportunity to continue playing because of injuries, so I am playing for all of us," he added...
...Kissinger '50 remembers all too well the New York Times' disclosures in 1967 of foundations that channelled Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) money into "patriotic causes" back in the 1950s. Starting in 1951, when he was still a graduate student at Harvard, Kissinger directed Harvard's Summer International Seminar--a program that brought to Harvard rising stars in foreign policy and political, cultural and literary life from Europe and Asia to school them in American foreign policy and, within certain bounds, to promote "freedom of exchange." Men on the order of Pierre Trudeau and Valerie Giscard D'Estaing--who were then...
Kissinger financed the program completely through grants from private foundations, and in 1967 several of those foundations appeared on the Times' list of CIA conduits. One of them, the Friends of the Middle East, had funneled $243,000 to the Harvard International Seminar. Kissinger panicked. Abigail Collins Fichter, Kissinger's administrative assistant in the 1960s, recalls in Ralph Blumenfeld's Henry Kissinger: The Private and Public Story, that Kissinger "was running around saying, 'Oh, my God, this is terrible. People are going to say I'm working...
...been a very tough year as far as wins and losses go," he says, but adds quickly, "It is not always wins and losses that you take out of the program." The comment reveals a constant thread in St. John's conversation about Harvard football: that the experience of playing serves at least as important a position as those vital...