Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a long, rugged winter in Washington, and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 49, was certainly due for a rest. The trouble is that Bob McNamara never exactly rests. Flying into Switzerland for a week's skiing vacation at Zermatt, he started tearing down the most difficult slopes in expert style. "It's great to get those problems out of your system for a while," he grinned. "And they're not bothering me with cables and phone calls...
...undergraduate writing courses. One such editorial, by Robert P. Fichter '60, mocks the "Harvard sex story" genre of the 1950's; he contends that the familiar locales of these stories--Widener, the Waldorf, the banks of the Charles, a fifth floor in Lowell--have been played out. But "Winter Term," by Sallie Bingham '58, is like Nemerov's stories: perceptive, caring, indelible...
Douglas L. Oliver '34, chairman of the Anthropology Department, conceived the project. It will send a team of biomedical students, social anthropologists, and physical scientists to the Solomons this summer for data on two or three primitive cultures. The data will be processed and analyzed next winter...
...Gilbert Highet, head of the classics department at Columbia University, recalls that he was particularly busy that winter. Then a professor of Greek and Latin, he had taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read...
That was in the winter...