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...country's tin miners, had withdrawn from the elections, urging all voters to abstain or cast blank ballots in protest. Two days before the vote, Lechín and Hernan Siles Zuazo, onetime President (1956-60) and a former Paz supporter, went on a hunger strike hoping to marshal public opinion against the President. But on voting day, abstentions and blank votes ran only 20% or so, and the hunger strikers soon started eating again...
...award is given annually to "that member of the graduating class who, because of his integrity, courage, leadership, and athletic ability, has best served the high purposes of Harvard as exemplified by former athletic director William J. Bingham." Kinasewich, like Bingham, was from a modest background. Each was First Marshal of his class...
Members of the class gained renown both in college and in later life. Among these are Richard H. Sullivan, First Class Marshal, who now is president of Reed College; James Tobin, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, who is a professor of economics at Yale and a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors; and Cleveland Amory, president of the CRIMSON and secretary of his class, who wrote The Proper Bostonians and is a commentator on American social life
...honor climaxes a Harvard athletic career that, despite an inauspicious beginning, has become one of the most successful in recent years. Elected First Marshal of the senior class, Kinasewich is a candidate to graduate magna cum laude and has won a Shaw Fellowship for post-graduate work abroad...
...Strike worth such costs? General Paul D. Adams, whose Army-Air Force STRIKE Command is conducting the exercise, is certain that it is. Puffing on a cigar in his air-conditioned trailer at Needles, Calif., Adams, 57, who bears a striking resemblance to the original "Desert Fox," German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, explained: "There are lots of things we try to accomplish in an exercise like this. It's the first time we've been able to get a proper training area for the armored divisions for ten or twelve years now-where they will encounter the tactical...