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More than half of the original members of the Class of '54 will stride into Cambridge this week. Too young to suffer during the Depression or World War II, in college during the Korean War, too old to be young in the sixties, yet not old enough to have children caught up in that decade, they have made much of their position in American chronology. They left Harvard 25 years ago, like many other classes, confident that the future offered nearly unlimited possibilities. For the Class of '54, the future kept that promise.Sen. JOSEPH R. McCARTHY...
...President tried to take the week's cudgelings in stride. Ten minutes after the White House was formally informed of the impending Lance indictment, Carter donned his jogging togs and ran four miles on the South Lawn. But privately he was infuriated. Said an intimate: "I've heard him use more profanity in the last four days than in the last four years...
...underlying personality would threaten me a good deal. He would get up and stride around. I was never quite sure but that he would attack...
...targeted missile program was, of course, Faught. The Wilton, Conn., native launched most of his sizzling projectiles from his favorite spot just to the right of the enemy cage, often taking passes from some extremely unselfish teammates who had open shots themselves. Faught appears to be hitting his stride just in time, as he will now have to fill the scoring shoes of injured All-American teammate Pete Predun. Scoring Summary by periods: HARVARD 1 7 4 5 -- 17 Williams...
...Again. The son of a newspaper publisher in High River, Alta., Clark has proved himself an adept parliamentary leader in his three years as Conservative chief. Many Canadians, however, worry about his relative inexperience, particularly in foreign affairs. After a somewhat nervous start on the hustings, Clark found his stride, advancing himself as a consensus seeker as opposed to "Mr. Trudeau's campaign of uniting Canada by attacking everyone...