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Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 turned in what is probably among the longest Government theses ever written at Harvard; his magnum opus, on "The Meaning of History," ran for 383 pages, plus bibliography--and that was after he had cut out two chapters, in an effort to shorten it. The effort won Kissinger a summa, but not the gratitude of some of those in the department who did not want to read it all, and some years ago a maximum page limit was set to avoid the problem in the future...
...Larry Brown, who, off Saturday's showing, killed the starting quarterback question. Brown is numero uno, no ifs, ands or Buckleys about it. He threw two scoring strikes in the first quarter Saturday, a 20-yarder to Jim Curry and a six-yard shortie to Scott Coolidge, and generally ran the show the way someone with more than two weeks of multiflex under his belt should...
...Pepper, the bill must vividly recall another piece of legislation for the aging that came earlier in his career. When he ran for his first full Senate term in 1938, Pepper urged the passage of the "Townsend Plan," which called for a $200-a-month payment to everyone over 60 who agreed to retire, regardless of need. Though the plan was defeated, political pressure for it was in part responsible for the passage in 1935 of the public assistance and old-age insurance provisions of the Social Security...
Smathers won and forced Pepper from political office until 1962, when redistricting in the Miami area created a new congressional opportunity. Pepper ran and won, becoming a freshman Congressman at the tender age of 62. In his 15 years in the House, Pepper has missed few floor votes. He has continued, on balance, to support social action programs. As MIMS a staffer explains, "He still believes, as he did during the New Deal, that the Government can correct injustices and right wrongs...
Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...