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Every year Chiang Kai-shek decrees that there be no official observation of his birthday. Every year the Formosans disobey. This year, for the Gimo's 81st, dragon and lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...
...seconds behind Allen, Harvard's Jim Baker ran 40th in 26:16. Ran Langenbach was 58th in 26:41, and George Starkus of Boston University, winner of the Greater Boston Championships, was two slots and two seconds behind Langenbach. Jon Chaffee was 78th in 27:09. Bob Stempson was 81st, and Joe Ryan ran 84th. Dick Howe was the last Harvard runner in 94th. A total of 159 runners crossed the finish line...
...said in 1960, putting aside his last active title with the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and taking the relatively inactive post of chairman of the executive committee. But he continued to go down to the office every day just the same. There, one afternoon last week, in his 81st year, a heart attack ended Roy Howard's 62-year career in journalism...
...hospital at Rublevo, 15 miles from the capital, suffering from "blood pressure." However, Communists maintained that Nikita and Nina had retreated to their old, four-room apartment at No. 3 Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave K. the push, including Suslov and Kosygin...
MARINO MARINI - Auslander, 1078 Madison Ave. at 81st. Man-on-horse formed Marini: as a youth he admired Donatello's equestrian Gattamelata, as a man he observed Dictator Benito Mussolini. Combining themes, he carved out a lesser heroism: his sculptures show stumbling horses and fearful men. In this show are some of the sculptures, but twelve lithographs, paired with his wife's poetry, and ten oils on paper show a purer image of horse and rider charging, falling, rising again with more courage than their predecessors. Through April...