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...Kassebaum is the 14th woman Senator Seven were appointed to office. Three were elected to succeed their husbands. Two others, Gladys Pyle and Hazel Able, served only to fill short-term vacancies. Margaret Chase Smith had previously been elected to succeed her late husband in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Toss-'Em-Out Temper | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...happiness. The most memorable and, sadly, the most prescient example of this theme came in Greene's The Quiet American, about Vietnam in the days when the Americans were still only supplying arms to the French. The reformist zealot there was a clean-cut, self-serious American adviser named Pyle who was bent on saving the Vietnamese for Democracy--by strategically wiping them out--and took as his bible the cold-warring treatises of an Ivy League academic named York Harding (Walt Rostow? Probably; it was too early for Sam Huntington.) Next to Pyle, the weary aloofness of the British...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where the Grass Is Never Greener | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

Crimson co-captain Duncan Pyle smoothly glided to sixth place in the 200-yd. back to move Harvard within seven...

Author: By Robert Grady, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Edges Crimson at Eastern | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Princeton's Alan Fine, whom Hackett beat in the last leg of this event to clinch last month's dual meet, swam leadoff this time and gained a slight edge over Cooper. But Pyle and Mack made up the deficit against Princeton's Howard Nelson and Andy Saltzman, to set the stage for the anchormen and Princeton's dramatic 364-356 victory...

Author: By Robert Grady, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Edges Crimson at Eastern | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Backstroke--1. Mark Heinrich, Navy, 1:53.13; 2. Geoffrey Seelen, Harvard, 1:54.22; 3. Todd Taylor, Dartmouth, 1.55.03; 4. Frank Fitzgerald, Princeton, 1:55.32; 5. Alex Hodge, Comell, 1:55.38; 6. Duncan Pyle, Harvard...

Author: By Robert Grady, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Edges Crimson at Eastern | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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