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...great losers in the history of U.S. presidential elections, a title he won in 1936 by carrying only two states against F.D.R., Kansas' Alf London, 79, has a rueful understanding of the uncertainties of politics. So when CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid dropped in at his Topeka homestead to talk about the next race, Landon smiled, said simply that he is backing Michigan's Governor George Romney, and added: "Anybody who attempts to predict the election of 1968 is nuts...
...Sellon Jr., '68 of Dudley House and Belmont, drill master; Wayne S. Barry '69 of Eliot House and Wilmette, III. Also approved assistant managers, Joseph Field '69 of Leverett House and Weston; William C. Horne '69 of Leverett House and Beverly; S. Kent Rawson '69 of Leverett House and Topeka, Kansas; Michael S. Schooler '69 of Lowell House and Rochester, N.Y.; and Robert D. Whittemore '69 of Leverett House and New York...
Finley speaks fondly of his boys, "this wonderful stream of undergraduates. Students are fun for me, pure unadulterated sunshine. Rather than sit next to a Mrs. Jones at some second rate dinner party, I much prefer to talk to the crazy nut from Topeka who drives a motorcycle, and is bright but is getting an E in Physics...
...Finley may have lost contact with his boys, just as students in his course say that he has lost contact with them. That is, "the nut from Topeka" is more the creation of his willful imagination than a reality. To achieve color and unity in his perceptions, Finley tends to latch on to a misconception or simple trait and then create an entire character around it. "Finley does not talk with you," runs the frequent complaint, "he talks at you." Says one senior. "I hope I never lose the capacity to listen...
...witty, independent-minded officer with an acerbic outlook on the worst of the military's staff-stuffy ways, Posvar was born in Topeka, and raised in Cleveland, where he topped his high school class. At West Point, he racked up the best academic record since Douglas MacArthur's cadet days, became the first Air Force officer to earn a Rhodes scholarship. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford and has a doctorate from Harvard in political science...