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...said his name was Roger, was hooked on the magazines. Once disarmament died out, a brief spate of articles on "A Generation Without Committment" was followed by what Roger describes as "the highlight of my own Harvard career"--the Great Harvard Sex Scandal...
...included in the book is Wolfe's most widely discussed article-a cruel, 11,000-word evisceration of The New Yorker. That piece set literary jowls aquiver from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and threw New Yorker staffers into a spate of semi-public wig flippings that are still going on-notably in a bitter rebuttal that Writer Dwight Macdonald is preparing for the biweekly New York Review of Books...
...Engine. When the current spate of campus debates and special missions for the President ends, Bundy is determined to retreat from public view. But he is sure to surface again, for his shop is a kind of crisis center, and there has been no shortage of crises in the past 4½ years-from Laos, Cuba and Berlin under Kennedy, to Panama, Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic under Johnson...
...Francisco Longshoreman Archie Brown, an open Communist for more than 25 years and a member of his local's executive board. In 1962 Brown was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison. He appealed, and last week, by a 5 to 4 decision in a session-ending spate of activity (see THE LAW), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld him. The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, declared that the Landrum-Griffin provision was a bill of attainder,* and therefore unconstitutional...
...eating away at the markets of many European firms. Last week, nonetheless, Europe's biggest industrial company put talented performance before touchy national pride and tapped for its inner circle of top command an American whose career is built on research. The man: Monroe E. Spaght (pronounced spate), president and chief executive of Shell Oil Co., who was picked as a managing director of Shell's huge European parent, Royal Dutch/Shell...