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...Sarit came into prominence as a hard-drinking, hard-wenching army field marshal who once showed up at an embassy dinner party in Bangkok carrying his own liquor, with the complaint that his host's hooch was second rate. Cirrhosis of the liver and the responsibility of power calmed him down. Though he once was involved in various devious deals, he slashed corruption to the minimum. "He wants his name in the history books, not his money in a Swiss bank account," an observer explained...
...never fun to break up a vacation and rush home to deal with some problem at the office. For Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, it was especially provoking, for he was enjoying some of the world's loveliest scenery at Marshal Tito's villa on the Yugoslav island of Brioni. But the cables from Cairo carried word that Nasser's Arab unity scheme was in a state of collapse. Reluctantly, Egypt's leader boarded a plane and headed across the Mediterranean to deal with his troublemaking partners, the Syrians...
David Rockefeller, Jr. '63, Senior Class Marshal, today announced the appointment of the Class Secretary and Treasurer. Michael R. Deland '63 of Eliot House and Chestnut Hill, will be the Class Secretary, in charge of collecting class news and reunion arrangements. William Nickerson Bancroft '63 of Medfield and Eliot House will be the Class Treasurer...
...Cairo last week, Egypt's No. 2 man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, stormed at a Syrian delegation: "Is Nasserism a crime in Syria now? If it is, how can we face the future together? If there are in Damascus people who consider Nasserism a crime, then how do you expect me to cooperate with them?" What set off Amer's flood of rhetorical questions was the threat posed to Nasser's dream of Arab unity by the gyrations of Syria's Baath Party leaders, headed by tall, lugubrious Premier Salah Bitar. The Baath leadership wants...
...Died. Meyrich Edward Clifton James, 65, British character actor who played his greatest role in 1944 just before D-day when he fooled the Germans into believing that he was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery on an inspection tour of North Africa and that the invasion was therefore still some time away; after a long illness; in Worthing, Sussex...