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...Cuba-Castro, who takes orders only from himself, or the Communist Party's old-line professionals, who get their instructions from Moscow? Revolution in a Raffle. Castro's answer was as clear as he could make it-he was still in charge. Last month, in a marathon 3½hour speech to his countrymen, he accused the old party regulars of undercutting his revolution, of shunting aside his followers in favor of its own cadres, of lowering a yoke on Cuba. Cried Castro: "The only comrade who could be trusted, the only one who could be appointed...
...venerable reading room. Said she: "Oh dear. I find it all very difficult. Laws going back to 1742. George II and all that, and that queer language with all those double efs instead of esses." Alfie, to litigation born, delved up enough dusty arguments to sustain a two-year marathon through British courts. His most appealing line: by a convenient "flaw" in British law, prison breaking is nowhere clearly defined as a misdemeanor...
Farmer implicated Harvard in a press conference last week at the University of Chicago, where CORE has been staging a two-week marathon demonstration to protect segregation in off-campus apartment houses. The University of Chicago had purchased the apartments as part of an urban renewal program to upgrade the adjoining community...
...article in the Jan. 13 issue of the New York World Telegram, Segal, who runs 12 miles a day to keep in shape, was described as a "tireless 24-year-old budding young playwright, who would rather win the Boston Marathon than write the next 'My Fair Lady.' Well almost...
While a student at the University of Vermont, Clarence DeMar was a cross-country runner of high aspirations and great promise. But after he won the Boston Marathon, doctors told him that he had "a weak heart," raising doubts as to whether he should keep on running. That was in 1911. When DeMar died in 1958, it was not of heart disease but cancer, and he was known throughout New England as "Mr. Marathon." For in the meantime, DeMar had competed in more than 1,000 long-distance races, including 100 true marathons of 25 miles or more. He entered...