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Other Galaxies. Foreknowledge of Japanese intentions helped the U.S. in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, undoubtedly gaining crucial time for the U.S. to prepare its final blows. But the personal toll on Friedman was tremendous: "The despair of the long weeks when the problem seemed insoluble, the repeated dashings of uplifted hopes, the tension and the frustration and the urgency and the secrecy all converged and hammered furiously upon his skull." He collapsed, but three months after his breakdown, Friedman returned to work, although in a less demanding area. Today, at 76, he lives in Washington in retirement...
...addition to the white coral beach, Obolensky offered for diversion gambling at the casino until 6 a.m. In the afternoon, he organized an exhibition tennis match, pitting Pancho Segura and Dina Merrill against Pancho Gonzales and Janet Leigh. And when George (Paper Lion) Plimpton leaped onto the court with a cry of "Tennis, anyone?" the Beautiful People sensibly took it as a signal to leap back into their limousines and depart...
...surprises left for Bob Hope, 64, in his Christmas tours for the troops. So they loaded him into a twin-engined C-2A "Cod" and fired him off the catapult of the carrier Ranger (acceleration from zero to 120 m.p.h. in three seconds), whomping him down on the nearby Coral Sea with the aid of an arresting hook. Hope came away laughing, but just barely. "I haven't felt a hook like that since vaudeville," he told 2,500 gleeful sailors. "I think I lost twelve fillings, and if you see a pair of Jockey shorts buzzing the bridge...
Harvard Debate Council officers for 1967-68 are: president, Steven P. Goldberg '69 of Leverett House and Silver Spring, Md.; vice-president, Joel S. Perwin '70 of Quincy House and Coral Gables, Fla.; treasurer, Edward W. Jones '70 of Kirkland House and Bowling Green, Va.; corresponding secretary, Frances Pritchett '69 of South House and Little Rock, Ark.; home secretary, Ronald T. Luke '70 of Kirkland House and Dallas, Texas,; director of publicity, James M. Fallows '70 of Adams House and Redlands, Calif.; and director of research, Robert H. Daniels '69 of Quincy House and Burlington...
...rush to rid itself of the weight of empire, Britain has often bestowed independence on lands that had no business accepting it. Botswana, for example, is an empty but now sovereign desert, Gambia a wriggle of jungle riverbank, and the Maldives a spatter of coral atolls mostly inhabited by starfish. Few lands, however, have been so ill-prepared to rule themselves as the Federation of South Arabia, which Britain announced last week will become independent by the end of November...