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Even when business is good, business men scan the economic horizon for portents of approaching trouble. And these days, as the dreary deadlock persists between Lyndon Johnson and Congress over taxing and spending, businessmen view the portents as troublesome. Seldom in recent years have they felt more uncomfortably aware that the whole U.S. economy can be crucially affected by a political impasse...
...unique at Harvard. But if you look closely you find a pattern that describes the average senior conglomeration: varying personalities with underlying common interests. And in the best House system tradition, there is a cross-section of sorts, ranging here from a sure-bet All-Ivy to a seldom-playing assistant coach's assistant...
...even harder to believe that today so many young men chant a new anthem: "Hell, no, we won't go!" Indeed, the phenomenon of bitter antiwar protest reflects profound changes in U.S. attitudes toward patriotism-an emotion once proudly shouted from the rooftops but now seldom even discussed. Is patriotism dead? Outdated? Should it still enter the discussion of grave national issues...
...could produce the most titillating details about the master spy. What did Philby like to drink? (Raki, a Turkish liqueur.) What were his favorite jokes? (Dirty.) Why did he stammer? (Suppressed violence.) That and much more came out in the kind of competition the so-called "quality" press has seldom indulged...
There is nothing unusual about kidney transplants these days, although last week's "doubleheader" operation was a kind of surgical economy seldom arranged. While doctors would prefer to use kidneys from close relatives to lessen the chances of natural rejection of foreign tissue, such donations cannot often be arranged. Those willing to donate organs are often not healthy or else are incompatible donors, and those able to donate are often not willing. The next best source is cadavers...