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...good time to be back, for Griswold had just rescued the university from a serious case of postwar doldrums. He more than tripled the endowment to $375 million, built 26 new buildings that gave the neo-Gothic campus a modern look, established research fellowships for young scholars. But the last days of his 13-year tenure were trying ones for Brewster and Yale. Griswold had always been rather distant from all but a few faculty favorites; now he was dying of intestinal cancer, and it fell to Brewster, as provost, to run day-to-day affairs. Yet he had neither...
...lady friend of Don Carlos noted last week. Venetians liked Don Carlos for a while, but cooled to him when he began pouring out whiskey "in spoonfuls." And so the splendiferous Spaniard turned to a new hobby: refurbishing a castle near Paris, where he is building a neo-Gothic tomb for his recently deceased...
...threatened last September. Next day seven pages of Pravda were devoted to a scalding speech of excommunication prepared privately seven weeks ago by Soviet Ideologist Mikhail Suslov for this very contingency. Suslov, who can be as foulmouthed a Marxist as Mao, damned the Chinese for "apostasy," "petty-bourgeois nationalism," "neo-Trotskyist deviation" and "hysterical" pronouncements that aligned Peking's leadership "with the most aggressive circles of imperialism...
People Shortage. Freeport's first hotel, the lush, 254-room neo-Aztec Lucayan Beach, opened last January (cheapest room: $37), and its casino-the first in the Bahamas-is kept busy by visitors from Miami. A topnotch 18-hole golf course and country club are completed. Just up the beach, there will be a 500-room Holiday Inn Hotel and a 150-room boatel and marina; other land has been bought for nightspots, motels, office buildings, a shopping center, private homes, a draught-and-rafters English pub. The biggest moneymaker so far is a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal...
...world's cold war conflicts," he said, "has serious implications in the context of African nationalism and our common policies of non-alignment... The presence of British troops in Tanganyika is a fact which is too easily exploited by those who wish to...play upon natural fears of neo-colonialism in the hope of sowing seeds of suspicion between the different African states...