Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...younger Hiss gives us the fascinating story, in fragmented form, of his father's life; a story of bizarre twists of fate and lasting disappointments to be sure, but also one of some happiness. If the name Alger Hiss sounds familiar, but you can't really place it, he was the center of a national crisis of sorts in the late 1940s over whether Communists had penetrated into high levels of the government. In 1948, in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a man named Whittaker Chambers had accused Hiss, the head of the Carnegie Endowment...
...fairness to the premises of this book, however, the younger Hiss is not trying to play Sherlock Holmes or to refute his father's critics point by point. He is trying to share his perceptions of a very private man, a man he cannot conceive of having committed the crime with which he was charged. And he succeeds as presenting himself as a powerful character witness for Alger Hiss--the book is worth reading for that testimony alone. But the vindication his father is now seeking, if it is to be won, will not be found through an effort like...
...rising costs "disgust me," James S. Barlow '79, said yesterday. Barlow said he worries about next year when his younger brother enters Harvard. Paying for both students will absorb about half the family's income unless they qualify for financial aid, Barlow said...
...broken with Mrs. Gandhi so tardily? Some observers noted that Indira's ambitious son Sanjay, 30, had been demanding that a number of party nominations for parliamentary seats be reserved for younger candidates; Ram and other members of the old guard may have feared that Mrs. Gandhi was on the verge of replacing them with fresh faces. Ram's walkout will impede her efforts to reorganize the party, forcing her to maintain a delicate balance between young and old candidates...
...COURSE, this is probably not a book that will reach a mass audience. Even back on Fire Island, where people usually take their hurricanes seriously, few people have read it. When I was quite a bit younger, "Thirty-eight" was a constant source of fascination for almost everyone in town. If you were among the younger set, your personal stock rose with your ability to tell hair-raising stories about what the Big Wind had done to your family's house. (I always came off the winner in contests like these, after repeating the probably apocryphal tale...