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...Wilson finds himself warning applicants against name brands in colleges. Says he: "Learning is something a student does with books and a teacher who cares. A student's intellectual growth depends far less on geography-which college-than on what advantage he takes of the opportunities that surround him wherever he is." In sum: if at first you don't succeed, look far, travel wide, and find another good college. The U.S. is full of them...
...commentators like to have people believe, Fuller maintained. "Nixon and Kennedy aren't able to listen to professors during the heat of a fast moving campaign. On a whistle-stop tour, each candidate, if he has any time at all to consult others, seeks advice from those who surround him every...
...Cousin fails, and at the first threat of torture, he sells out to the Germans. He also kills his accomplice, who survived torture but had the bad luck to witness Cousin's cowardice. Working for the enemy. Cousin can still surround himself with the illusion of righteousness. His now deranged mind pretends that his cowardice was really a means of making himself more useful to France. He ranges from total fear to fantastic visions of capturing Hitler through brilliant trickery. The Germans bully him, despise him, and drive him relentlessly toward deeper betrayals...
...more evidence of Castro's growing troubles. Some 315 miles to the west, in the Sierra Escambray, small groups of oppositionists have joined in a nettlesome guerrilla force estimated at 400 to 1,000 fighting men. Castro has sent 10,000 to 15,000 militia to surround the rebels, who apparently are getting weapons by air. Last week the Cubans were getting so nervous that they forced down a Nicaraguan cargo plane, grilled the pilots for eight hours...
...figures. I can't help feeling that what I learned on the beach is heartening. If the future does not look overly strong, neither does it appear terribly weak. If the national mood is changing and people are coming to take more interest in the big issues that surround them, then soon more realistic solutions will manifest themselves...