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...Papa. Edgar travels the equivalent of ten times around the world every year, catches up on sleep by snapping on a black eyeshade and stretching out on a bunk in the company plane. A confidant and partygoing pal of several world leaders, he has become the U.S.'s semi-official ambassador to Ghana's Red-leaning dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. He also finds time to serve on three U.S. presidential commissions and to supervise the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Medical Plan, in which 1,200,000 members pay a monthly fee for the services of 1,000 doctors...
...said that Harvard students are often deluded by the "myth that the South is a sort of semi-foreign, country." The Socialists believe that racism is an overall problem, as evidenced by the riots in several Northern cities last summer. They hope to prove this point by focusing on New York, "a liberal city...
Princeton plays Michigan in the semi-finals Friday, and if ever a team can "up" for a game, Princeton will be up or this one. When the two teams met New York's Holiday Festival Tournament, Princeton held a 73-63 lead with four minutes to play, when All-American Bill Bradley fouled out. The Tigers ollapsed. With a full-court press that thoroughly discomfitted the sophomore-nominated Tiger squad, Michigan...
...reaction was shared by urbane Semi-Abstractionist Rufino Tamayo who did the cover portrait.* Instead of the flamboyant, movie-star type he had envisaged, the artist found his subject "a most unglamorous girl of marvelous simplicity. From the beginning," he recalled of the sittings in his Cuernavaca weekend home, "she said we should talk in English because her mother was English and she preferred the maternal tongue. It was her own delightful way of telling me what I already knew-that my French is preposterous." He was delighted that Jeanne agreed to informal sittings, without makeup or hairdo, "because...
Gray has run a 0:06.3 60-yard dash, as fast as the best by Harvard's Awori and Wayne Anderson, and about everyone else in the league this year. But the exhausting series of trials, semi-finals, and finals in both the hurdles and the dash just about precludes the possibility of Gray--or anyone else--winning both...