Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisoners to lick a parade ground clean of dog feces. "Today's legion is different," says one veteran of Algerian days. "Discipline is not what it was. The old ways are no longer acceptable. We are commandos now-exceptionally fit and capable commandos-but we are not the supermen of legend...
Despite the fact that Harvard's aqua-supermen dunked the Tigers, 58-55, earlier this season, Princeton--which has won the championship meet for the last five years in a row--is the decided favorite. You can forget the other ten or 15 teams that will be splashing around Brown's classy pool this weekend. This is a two-team showdown: Hackett's Heroes vs. the Incredible Orange Machine...
...lecture delivered at Columbia University more than a decade ago, David Brinkley proposed doing away entirely with "the role of the all-wise, all-informed, all-knowing journalistic supermen." Brinkley objected to the way "the whole apparatus of press agentry and promotion is put to work ... promoting stars along with promoting news, to the point where it is not clear which is which." The only solution, Brinkley argued, was to "report the news the way newspapers report it," with many reporters spending the day developing stories, "then having them, all of them, report on the ah" whatever they have learned...
...things should be kept in mind, however, as the season enters the final three weeks. This is not the best outfit that ever has or will play for Harvard. It is obviously not made up of a bunch of supermen...
Died. John O. Levinson, 59, Chicago attorney who, as a nine-year-old boy, was the original murder target of self-styled "Supermen" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; of cancer; in Portland, Me. Levinson was a friend of Loeb's younger brother Tommy in 1924 when the jaded teen-age duo decided on him as the victim of their "perfect crime." The pair attempted to follow Levinson home from a sand-lot baseball game, but he had turned down a different street from the usual one and inadvertently eluded them. They then killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks instead...