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...Harvard's Tom Spengler may have a chance to compete against Villanova's Marty Liquori, winner of the Supermile race over Jim Rynn. "Tom hasn't run the qualifying standard, but he's certainly capable of it." Stowell said. He said that Harvard's head coach Bill McCurdy is appealing the rule requiring a qualifying time and requesting that Spengler be permitted...
Kissinger has been heard to remark around Washington that "Nixon will save us from the hardhats"; but in his undergraduate days, the men alertinging him to the danger of historical collapse were made of more sterling stuff. Kissinger read with particular concern the works of Oswald Spengler, whose dire predictions about the fall of the West had a measurable impact on the young refugee student. The historical forces shaping his early background had recked of decadence. A colleague, Stanley Hoffmann, would remark later that Kissinger "walked in a way with the ghost of Spengler at his side...
...culmination of Kissinger's undergraduate work was a gargantuan 350-page thesis on the work of Spengler, Toynbec, and Kant. Unpretentiously titled "The Meaning of History," its only lasting impact seems to have been that it spurred the Government Department to impose a 150-page limit on the length of senior theses. But it was good enough to be graded summa -a rare thing in those days-and contained some fruitful insights into Kissinger's mind. In a section devoted to Spengler, he wrote that "Instinct is no guide to political conduct. Effective leadership is always forced-whatever its motives...
...Mile: Tom Spengler and Jeff Brokaw
Mile: Jon Enscoe and Tom Spengler...