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SIGHTS tloiniiiiiK l Juno. If you were at Yale, you saw 1954 candidates for degree on June 2, Frank Lloyd Wright being among those to receive an honorary degree. If you were a member of the French National Assembly, you saw the first, but not the last, of a new premier, Pierre Mendes- France. If you were a congressman, you saw the wrong end of a Puerto-Rican pistol, and you might have gone to the hospital because of it. If you were Ed Furgol, you saw your final putt drop to win the National Open golf championship. If you were Joseph elch, you saw Joe McCarthy through a blur of tears, and you blurted out: Have vou no sense of d ' For France and the free world: a Pyrrhic victory. JULY was a month of quotas. Aneurin Bevan fought the EDC with no ■runs for the Huns ; eight months later Be- van was ousted from the Labor Party. Roy Cohn resigned as chief counsel to McCarthy: I extend to the great American jury my heartfelt thanks for its loyal support. John I -n-ter Dulles, Secretary of State, began bifl agonizing reappraisal, and after seven and a half years fighting ended in Indo-China. A Edward R. Murrow might have said, you could hear the world quiet down. Names and personalities also made the news of tin- world in that month. Hfolotoi laughed when he heard that the Geneva Con- For Dr. Sam: Guilty. ference had failed. Dr. Sam Sheppard in- sisted that a bushy-haired man had mur- dered his wife, but a jury thought differently, when, five months later, the longest criminal court trial in United States history ended. Christian Dior crashed the headlines in the most effective way possible: he flattened the American woman ' s figure. The World Council of Churches held a mass meeting in Evanston, Illinois. August was a month of birth and death: Vito Marcantonio, De Gasperi, and the EDC in France had passed away, but ex-president Herbert Hoover celebrated his eightieth birthday. For M endes-F ranee : cheers and jeers. % ' Id

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$ J APRIL and May were noisy in the world and at Yale, and most of the sounds were ominous. Dienbienphu entered the world ' s vocabu- lary, and the Senate-McCarthy-Army hearings began. McCarthy ' s grating voice began with point of order and scarcely ceased. Ray Jenkins ' southern drawl and the mellifluous tones of Joseph Welch became familiar to a nation of living-room listeners. Other sounds were more pleasing. Roger Bannister heard the enthusiastic roar of track fans as he became the first human to break the four-minute mile. A few days later, Earl Warren ' s voice droned out over a packed court room, and his words heralded the end of segregation in the public schools. This was not a pleasant sound to most of the South. Yale shuddered at the screech of slipping tires as two seniors died near Poughkeepsie in an auto accident. While William Buckley defended McCarthy before an overflow crowd in Woolsey Hall, the first stone was being set in place toward the forthcoming censure hearings. Yale men were facing the pressing problems of trying to avoid being swept off the streets by the mobs of Hillhouse students. The Class of 1958 fell heir to the benevolent despotism of Harold B. Whiteman, as Prince Hal was appointed Dean of «f Freshmen, and the check-cashing line at the Co-op continued to £ grow longer as College Weekend approached. How was your P. R. rating? One of the few pleasant sounds to French soldiers in Indo- china was the name of the Angel of Dienbienphu, Nurse Genevieve De Galard-Terraube. The Geneva Conference moved on, while, on the other side of the world, the carrier Bennington caught fire, killing or wounding three hundred. Some of these men were old enough to die, but the Senate had just ruled them too young to vote. There was the sound of irony in the month of May. Ernest Hemingway ' s plane crashed in the jungle, but Papa walked away from the debris to laugh at his own obituaries. Bozell — Yes Buckley — Yes 7s McCarthy more of an asset than a liability? 1 Countryman — No Harper — No

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John Trinkaus like to dabble in philosophy. Norman Pearson From the tuisted fabric of fiction, verbal artifacts. Paul Weiss Man is an architect, a maker of himself. • » A GREAT university, said Car- Maynard Mack Hints and guesses . . . the theme of King Lear and the tragedy of Ufe. •A lyle, is a collection of books. But if this was true for some at Yale, for many more it was the faculty which made the Uni- versity a center of learning. If the past had been graced with the names of Tinker, Phelps, Silliman, Dana, Sumner, Woolsey and Chit- tenden, the present was equally blessed. Some were spellbinders ; others were vitriolic ; many were quietly inspiring, provoking re- flection and speculative inquiry. In the lecture hall, in the informal discussion, in the semi- nar, Yale ' s faculty carried forward a proud tradition. Vincent Scully Forms moving in time and space. Cecil Driver With opportunity goes responsibility. Henri Peyre The nightmare of civilization ' s collapse obsesses us. 11