Word: honorables
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...understand the Cuban revolution, and to understand what kind of a "challenge" it really presents, requires that we stop thinking of world problems solely in terms of our benefits. It seems strange to expect Castro or the Cuban people to honor the economic agreements and deals made by Batista, whom the overwhelming majority of Cubans abhorred. The American companies were, and were seen as, comrades of Batista's tyranny. If we forget that Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans, we cannot expect the Cuban people to do likewise. For the first time in sixty years, the Cuban people are free; only...
Robert L. Pillsbury '61, a tackle, has been selected by his teammates as the most valuable player on the 1960 varsity football team. Pillsbury, of Winthrop House and Wollaston, received the Frederick Greely Crocker Award, emblematic of the MVP honor, at the annual Harvard Club of Boston banquet for the team last night...
...annual competition for the Bowdoin Prizes, Harvard's oldest and most distinguished literary honor, was announced recently...
...north to Colombo deep in the Indian Ocean, governments and businessmen are frenziedly trying to please all types of tourists. New resorts are being built and old ones modernized. In Japan, baseball, amusement parks and horse racing compete with such traditional attractions as the drum pounding, seasonal festivals in honor of dolls, hollyhocks, chrysanthemums and cherry blossoms. Tokyo, the world's largest city, has more bars and coffee houses than Rome and Paris put together. Nightclubs are either as big as gymnasiums or so intimate that the hostesses have no place to sit but on the patron...
...Institute for Independent Study is a success, it does not seem overly optimistic to prophesy that Radcliffe will have the honor of initiating a nation-wide effort to salvage potentially effective women from intellectual stagnation and to use their talents for the benefit...