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...guerilla version of the war in Vietnam was presented in a film shown by the Cambridge ADA to a crowd of nearly two hundred in the Faculty Club last night. It was the first public showing in the United States of a film made by the South Vietnamese Liberation Front, the national political organization of the guerillas...
...film, which won the prize for the best documentary at the Moscow film festival last June, was lent to the ADA by Albert Maher '63, who brought it back from Cuba this summer. Maher was one of the fifty-nine American students who visited Cuba in deflance of State Department regulations...
Creating NATO. The King that Truman was not referring to-Prime Minister Mackenzie King-called him back to Ottawa in 1946. By then, Pearson had ' mastered the technique of the new internationalism. He helped to draft the U.N. Charter as senior adviser to Can ada's delegation, and chaired the U.N. interim commission on food and agriculture. He was one of several men mentioned for the post of U.N. Secretary-General, "a job I would have liked." Though the Russians agreed that Pearson had the qualifications, they insisted on a European, settled on Trygve...
...schoolteacher, Kerr was born near Ada, in what was then Indian territory, worked as a salesman and schoolteacher, passed the bar after clerking in an Ada law office. In 1929, he joined with his brother-in-law to start a shaky drilling company that eventually became the $200 million Kerr-McGee corporation. Kerr entered Democratic politics as a fund raiser and spokesman for the oil and gas industries, was elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last...
...Lockheed Corp. in collaboration with RCA, is building a system called ADA (Automatic Data Acquisition). Under ADA. an employee on the production line tells the central computer when he has finished a given job promptly gets back orders on what to tackle next...