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...Nope, I've withdrawn from politics. The Democratic National Committee stopped taking collect calls...
Charles H. Altekruse '80, captain of the Harvard men's heavyweight crew and a candidate for the Olympic team, said yesterday he "feels a real sympathy for the cause," but added that only yesterday he had withdrawn as a plaintiff from the case...
...cited: Carter's push to have the neutron warhead deployed in Western Europe, winning the support of a reluctant Helmut Schmidt, only to postpone the project indefinitely; pressuring West Germany to reflate its economy and then dropping the notion; shocking Tokyo by announcing that U.S. forces were to be withdrawn from South Korea, only to backtrack later...
Grandine's decision to abandon his academic career for law school reflected a dilemma, present in many of the works he taught, that confronted him personally: whether the withdrawn academic life could be creative as well. Soon after he made this choice, he learned of the severity of his cancer, and remained at Harvard to teach intermittently. He faced his more than two years of illness with maturity and understanding...
...relationships he tried to establish, no one was more open; he tried, no one listened more painfully and earnestly, and worked and solicited opinions. But it's how you do it. There's a quality of humanness, gregariousness, conviviality, whatever it is, liking that. He seems to be more withdrawn. And when you're with Carter, you always come away with a sense that he's very serious, and very quiet; you never get much of a feeling about what he himself feels...