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Harrington, who is married and has five children, is a graduate of Harvard College ('58), Harvard Law School ('61), and a student of the Graduate School of Public Administration ('62-'63). He is teaching a seminar at the Institute of Politics this year, "How the Congress Responds to Crisis." He...
New York was severely hampered by the absence of center and captain Willis Reed. Without Reed, Celtic center Dave Cowens and sidekick Silas completely dominated the backboards at both ends of the court. Silas finished the night with 18 points while Cowens chipped in with 16.
In the manic heyday of protest, California students were among the most demonstrative. They burned down the Bank of America at Isla Vista and brought out the National Guard five times. Berkeley, cradle of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, was especially volatile. In 1968 the Berkeley authorities installed...
But his heroes are the uncommon men whom he calls "the Go-Getters"-the tycoons, the inventors, the social scientists, who shaped the real character of American life. These, argues Boorstin, are the genuine "revolutionaries," and the book is studded with their biographies: Willis H. Carrier, who homogenized the country...
Going into the N.B.A. finals against the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Lakers figured that their primary goal was to stop Walt Frazier, who led the Knicks through the first two rounds of the play-offs with a sizzling average of 24 points a game. Stop him they did...