Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still one of the youngest fellows around," read the birthday telegram from Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and the ex-Governor justified the historian's compliment with a six-mile ride across the Kansas countryside on his red Morgan horse. At 82, Alf London is a Topeka squire who keeps in touch with young people by conducting four seminars a year at Kansas State. "I answer all questions on all subjects," boasted Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 opponent, adding that he, for one, is not turned off by the Now Generation...
...later as the military academy's youngest (39) superintendent, and went on to fame in three wars, eventually becoming a five-star General of the Army. Now, five years after his death, West Point has honored Douglas MacArthur by erecting an 8-ft. bronze statue to his memory. Still looking sprightly despite her 70 years, Mrs. MacArthur took a widow's pleasure in traveling up to the Point for the dedication of the statue, as well as a new, six-story dormitory wing that will be known as MacArthur Barrack...
...said the lady last month, after President Nixon nominated her as chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. But old habits die hard, especially for a veteran newspaper hand like Mrs. Helen Delich Bentley, 45, for 16 years maritime editor of the Baltimore Sun. So there she was last week, still at work pending Senate confirmation, dictating a story over ship-to-shore radio from the mammoth ice-breaking tanker S.S. Manhattan on its voyage through the Northwest Passage to Alaska. It must have been a salty yarn, too, because a monitoring station in Iowa picked up some unprintable language-which...
...nation will long be haunted by the specter of the armed rebellion on the campus of Cornell University for six days last April. Still fresh are the images of black students seizing Willard Straight Hall for 35 hours and emerg ing with shotguns and rifles only after the administration had capitulated to their demand for amnesty...
Ambiguous Position. What of the administration's decision to grant the amnesty demands while the blacks were still holding the student union? The trustees took an ambiguous position. "Cornell had no bloodshed, no headlines of murder, no substantial property damage, no students hospitalized and in very short order a campus that was returned to relative peace," they conceded. Asserting that nobody will ever know if the administration's surrender was the right way to settle the crisis, the trustees noted that Cornell officials had placed the protection of life above the reputation of the university...