It was another intellectual underpinning for America’s fatal activism in Vietnam.It was also at MIT that Rostow became involved with the state’s young and ambitious Democratic Senator, John F Kennedy. As a policy adviser, he played a significant part in Kennedy’s successful 1960 presidential bid. The catchphrase of “The New Frontier” is said to have been invented by Rostow; he also coined the main campaign slogan, “Let’s get this country moving again”.Eight years later, all the promise was in ruins. Johnson had been broken on the wheel of Vietnam, and the Republican Richard Nixon was elected President. Vietnam had cost Rostow too many friends, especially in his natural habitat of East Coast academia.

But he found refuge at the University of Texas in Austin, where he taught for many years and lived for the rest of his life. The Vietnam War, he continued to argue, had bought the rest of South-East Asia time – and, outwardly at least, he never let it bother him. “I’m not obsessed with Vietnam and I never was,” he said in 1986.His country, though, did not forget as easily.Rupert Cornwell. NICK DUNCOMBE had played just 270 minutes of senior rugby, representing some three and a half matches, for Harlequins’ first XV, when, on 2 February last year – just 12 days after his 20th birthday – he made his England d?t as a half-time replacement for the injured scrum-half Kyran Bracken against Scotland at Murrayfield.

Nicholas Stephen Duncombe, rugby player: born Taplow, Buckinghamshire 21 January 1982; died Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote 14 February 2003.
Nick Duncombe had played just 270 minutes of senior rugby, representing some three and a half matches, for Harlequins’ first XV, when, on 2 February last year – just 12 days after his 20th birthday – he made his England d?t as a half-time replacement for the injured scrum-half Kyran Bracken against Scotland at Murrayfield.That his diminutive frame survived some ferocious tackling was testament to his physical condition and his mental approach to fitness. Some two years previously he had suffered a broken neck in a schools match but had come back from that setback with no ill-effects.While his 5ft 8in build made him more suited to be a flat race rider, there was little doubt in the mind of most aficionados that this product of the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe would be jockeying for a regular England place before too long.It was as a schoolboy that Duncombe gave the earliest indications of his gifts when he won caps at Under 16 and Under 19 levels. Anyway one of their players had run the whole length of the pitch, a try looked a formality, and at that point I would have been thinking about getting under the posts for the conversion. Suddenly this diminutive figure comes racing across, and smashes this enormous guy into touch on the line. Just when the whole thing looked hopeless Nick had come sprinting across the pitch, saving his team at the last minute.

That is the kind of heart Nick had.There is little doubt he had a long international future. The England head coach Clive Woodward said: Nick was one of our brightest and most talented players. The two caps he won would have been, I believe, the beginning of a long international career, which had already started so well with some superb performances for the England Under 19 and Sevens teams.David Llewellyn. AS A painter turned potter, Waistel Cooper’s approach to the craft was that of the artist rather than the craftsman. His monumental vessel and sculptural forms, with their dry, textured, creamy-white surfaces, owe as much to the rocks and austere landscape of Iceland (where he first started working with clay) as they do to the history of the craft; and from the start of his career as a potter over 50 years ago his primary concern was with form and texture rather than function. Waistel Cooper, potter: born Ayr 19 April 1921; married 1957 Joan D’Arcy Jeancon (died 1982), 1983 Gillian Tedder; died Penzance, Cornwall 15 January 2003.
As a painter turned potter, Waistel Cooper’s approach to the craft was that of the artist rather than the craftsman. Stylistically, he responded to continental modernism rather than an aesthetic of the Far East as espoused by Bernard Leach.Born in Ayr in 1921, he was encouraged to study art, attending Hospitalfield College of Art in Arbroath before winning a scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art, but the outbreak of war interrupted his studies and he was drafted into the Army.