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...Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House Kansas City, Mo., has been elected of the University Band...
...responsibility not only to the American people but to free peoples everywhere if it did not, in the absence of Soviet cooperation, take such measures as are possible unilaterally to lessen and to overcome this danger of surprise attack. In fact, the U.S. has not and does not shirk this responsibility." When Khrushchev responded with a threat to "strike" and "hit" at any nation that provided an airbase for such U.S. intelligence flights, the State Department replied that the U.S. would defend any foreign nation whose bases were so attacked...
...quite-all the way toward admitting that he is an eager presidential candidate. At a Houston press conference. Johnson was asked if he would accept the Democratic nomination. "I have served my country in every capacity in which I have been asked to serve," he replied. "I would not shirk my responsibility." He was aware that his name would be placed in nomination at the Democratic Convention, Johnson admitted. "I am very honored." Meanwhile, there were his Senate duties in Washington, but "from time to time I will visit with my friends over the nation...
...problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary degrees, Sirs, honorary degrees! Surely Harvard cannot shirk its duty to future historians, its duty to choose from among the many those few worthy of its recognition and their attention. Surely it would be unseemly for a great university to bury its head in the sands of the past and neglect history's need for its wise and discriminating...
Other officers, announced during the half of the Yale game to take office immediately, are: Assistant Managers, W. Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Mo., Geoffrey B.S. Cavanagh '62, of Dunster House and Gloucester, Joseph F. McLean '62, of Dudley House and Dorchester, and John M. Flader '62, of Leverett House and Kohler...