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...Von Stade appears to have little fondness for student activism in general. He termed the period of the student strikes in 1969 and 1970 "hyperemotional...
...itself von Stade comes out sounding closer to President Nixon than to Democratic nominee George McGovern. "My own feelings, at least now, are that it is a disaster that we ever got into the war," he says. "But my feelings even today...
...von Stade is not like a lot of people. Born of an old German Irish New York clan (the Skiddy is Irish, the von Stade German), he was brought up on Long Island, "the world immediately following the world of the Great Gatsby," as he describes it. His home town was Old Westbury, a New York suburb that he says "used to cut a lot of mustard in certain novels...
...von Stade family are renowned horsemen. Skiddy's father, who was also named Skiddy--"He was what you called in those days a gentleman jockey," Skiddy Jr. says--founded the Museum of Racing in Saratoga, N.Y., along with Averill Harriman...
When the young von Stade arrived at Harvard, he brought two polo ponies with him. Needing more horses for a match, von Stade joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and trained some of the field artillery horses for polo. "That was my drill," he says...