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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Polls among his own countrymen indicate that Johnson averages a slightly broader base of approval than Kennedy -by Gallup's reckoning, 72% v. 70%. But the do-you-approve sort of query falls immeasurably short of assessing emotional intensity. Kennedy's legend is The Legend, and he is its hero; Johnson, at best, is the champion of the consensus. The Great Society, which exists largely on paper, is widely approved, but it has not kindled wide enthusiasm or idealistic fire-and those will be needed, just as much as political skill, if the paper is to become reality...
...James V. Baker '68, of Lowell House and Northfleet, England, will captain next fall's Harvard cross-country team. Baker, who ran second for the Crimson most of the season, will succeed senior Dave Allen...
...benign nuclear war is being fought in Europe - a battle over the $500 million-a-year market for power reactors.Western Europe has already outdistanced the U.S. in the number of nuclear power installations (29 v. 12), but that is just the beginning. Europe has decided for the future to invest more in nuclear power than in any other means of producing electricity, is on the threshold of making major purchases of equipment. Such U.S. giants as General Electric and Westinghouse, which won an early beachhead for their reactors, are now being strongly challenged by big equipment makers in Britain, Germany...
...uranium has not only made nuclear power competitive with conventional power but made it the cheapest of all available forms of electricity in many parts of Europe. German power experts calculate that a large modern nuclear plant can churn up power for 6 to 61 mills per kilowatt-hour v. 71 to 9 mills for an equivalent coal plant. Hydroelectric power is cheaper than both, but is not widely available. Switzerland and Sweden are opting for nuclear power because they are running out of water sources...
Practice ended with a burst of shouts and a massive rush toward Dillon Field House. There band members had gathered and had blocked out a large V in red railroad flares on the turf. The team entered Dillon though the burning victory sign to frenzied cheers and Harvard song. The band followed the team into the locker room and continued to play fight songs for 15 minutes...