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...Guard rampages reached their peak. ∙ Four years and several purges later, the Politburo's key committee has been whittled down to just three men: Mao Tse-tung, who heads the party; Defense Minister Lin Piao, No. 2 in the party and Mao's designated heir; and Premier Chou. Because China's presidency is vacant-no successor has been named for Liu Shao-chi, angrily deposed by Mao as a "revisionist" in 1967-Chou is the top man in the Chinese government, and the man with whom Richard Nixon will deal under the rules of protocol...
...such electronic fashion did the current heir of Morocco's three-century-old Alouite dynasty bring home a chilling lesson to his subjects: any who rebel against him will be shot, perhaps without trial. Only two days before their deaths last week, the condemned officers had led 1,400 army cadets in an abortive coup while Hassan and 500 guests celebrated the King's 42nd birthday at a seaside party (see box). The coup was put down in a matter of hours, and life quickly returned to normal in Morocco under the strong hand of General Mohammed Oufkir...
Married. Mama Cass Elliott, 27, brobdingnagian belter of pop-rock tunes; and Donald von Wiedenman, 27, writer-actor and heir to a Bavarian barony; she for the second time, he for the first; in West Hollywood...
...tragedy-plagued torch singer of the 1920s and 30s; in Stamford, Conn. Beauty and an earthy voice propelled her to stardom on Broadway, where she is best remembered for her bluesy renditions of such songs as Body and Soul and Moanin' Low. In 1931 she married Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was mysteriously shot to death the following year. Libby was indicted, along with one of Reynolds' friends, but murder charges were dropped for lack of evidence. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an apparent overdose of sleeping pills; five years later...
Perhaps the true test of Bok's commitment to student opinion will come when he has to make a major appointment which has no heir apparent. It is only clear now that he is willing to break the Pusey mold of the past decade and at least give students the feeling that they have something to do with Harvard's decision-making process...