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...Select Out" Communists...
...figure around which Love is attempting to build his boat is senior Parry Boyden, Captain of the crew for the second year. A terrific competitor, Boyden has a special motive for desiring a winning boat: A victory over Yale at New London this year would put him in the select company of strokes who have beaten the Eli four years running--a trick last accomplished by Gerry Cassedy...
Horses win for whip-swinging jockeys like Bill Hartack because they are afraid of them. The experts like to say that horses win for a handful of riders because they enjoy running for them. Shoemaker is one of these select few and so, this year, is Johnny Sellers...
...stealthy marauders are part of a select band of 1,800 specialists who make up the U.S. Army's Special Forces, a growing nucleus in U.S. military operations. Their job is to drop far behind enemy lines to rally partisan bands and teach them the prickly science of guerrilla warfare. Though the group was organized in 1952, its training and operations (two overseas units: one in Okinawa, one in West Germany) have been largely soft-pedaled. They blossomed from the shadows last week after President Kennedy-who has been reading books on guerrilla warfare by Mao and Castro...
...between the many techniques of composition today inflate the art's factional politics; the neoclassicists rail at the atonalists for their dehumanized experimentation and the latter hiss back at their opponents's "superfiuous," "reactionary" conservatism. If a composer finds no camp congenial, he must have great skill to select the elements from several schools, integrate them into a distinctly personal idiom, and still avoid the short-comings of a patchwork eclecticism...