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...result was a shake-up in the boatings. The performance of the new varsity has been "reasonably encouraging," and it stands a good chance of avenging last year's loss to M.I.T. in the Biglin...
...matter of visibility. Last week, after a fast round of golf at suburban Maryland's Burning Tree Golf Club, Johnson entertained a king, tossed out the opening-day ball for the Washington Senators, popped out of the White House to reach through the southeast gate and shake hands with tourists, in a single day made four speeches totaling some 7,000 words, and presided at not one but two news conferences...
...Chile's fast-growing Christian Democratic Party. Chileans are normally reserved about their politicians. But the tall, gaunt, obviously dedicated Frei has a charisma that sends his audience into wild cheers; when he moves about, crowds surround his car, chanting his name, reaching in the window to shake his hand. His party is only eight years old, and yet it emerged from last year's municipal elections with 23% of the total vote to become Chile's largest single political force...
...impoverished Caribbean nation ($70 per capita income, 90% illiteracy), it was a life sentence. Since he took office in 1957, Duvalier has ruthlessly liquidated every real or suspected foe of his regime. The 5,000-man Tonton Macoute, Duvalier's plain-clothes bully boys, shake down merchants and terrorize peasants, while his militiamen engage in macabre voodoo orgies, playing on the belief of the superstitious population that Papa Doc has occult powers. Haitian exiles, arriving in the Dominican Republic at the other end of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, say that the rites have included sewing up newborn babies...
...broken spring, releasing the gigantic energy that was stored inside them. Most of the energy turns into waves in the rock, and some of the waves plunge downward to pass through the earth to the opposite side. The most powerful waves run along the surface, making the solid crust shake and jump...