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...hardened politicos who pass through the state every four years, their heads swimming with thoughts of 72 counties, ten Congressional districts, X number of delegates to the national convention. Most students descend on Wisconsin with only Rand McNally memories of the state as a cheese-colored mitten, its thumb thrust into a pale blueness labeled "Lake Michigan...
Today there are some American planners, in the universities as well as Washington, who still see Vietnam as the ultimate test of their doctrine. I have in mind those gifted but in my view, wrongheaded men who have given a new life to the missionary thrust in American foreign relations--who believe that this nation, in this era, has been granted a threefold endowment of sorts that can transform the world...
There has been, however,--particularly toward the end of the last century--been a more activist thrust, a hope that we could not only show them from after but help them do it; and that moves awfully close in due course to doing it for them...
Herbert Rawlins, Jr. '27 was a stylist, a player whose grace made him a pleasure to watch. Jack Barnaby '32, Harvard's present squash coach, wrote of him: "It was his pleasure to thwart the crude bludgeonings of sluggers with the rapier thrust of restrained but perfect accuracy." Rawlins took the National title...
...quaint buckled shoes. When the big moment came and he strode boldly forward, his feet got snarled in electrical cables and he tripped over the footlights almost into the lap of Senator Robert A. Taft. Hoisting himself back onstage, he tried to recover his fallen armor, only to be thrust forward again by the spear of the young man behind him. The audience convulsed; Ray fled...