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...told, 358 Cubans have hopped the fence into Guantánamo. A few of them have since slipped away by one means or another. The rest are still on the base, because of a legal quirk. The base commander, Rear Admiral Edward J. O'Donnell, has no authority to grant visas to the U.S., and even if he did have authority, the U.S. Cuban lease agreement of 1903 does not establish Guantánamo as a port of exit for Cuban citizens. Eager to give Castro no legal grounds for demanding annulment of the lease, which runs in perpetuity...
...University of Rhode Island threatened the Crimson, in the first race, as its four boats started well and maintained a team lead until the last windward leg of the triangular course. But Lehmann, in first place, managed to slow down the second and third U.R.I. boats, letting Stookey slip into first and giving the Crimson...
...football team at Hawken, and worse yet, no girls. So Cyrus III took off for Nashville, Tenn., where public West End High School, he heard, has both football and the coeds to go with it. Trying to enroll as a penniless orphan named Seth French, he let it slip that he knew Latin, and before long the jig was up. Said Cyrus: "I'm not happy. After eleven years in a private school, I wanted to see what it was like in a public school...
Ethel Kennedy and Jean Kennedy Smith spent months in planning, in deciding who among the whos to invite, at $15 to $100 a ticket. There were a few slip-ups along the way. Ethel sent a shoe-box full of index cards for the guest list to Mrs. David Ginsburg, ticket chairman. Mrs. Ginsburg was slightly surprised to see "Trigger Mike" Coppola and "Tony Ducks'' Corallo on the list. And when she saw the name Hoffa, she "knew something was wrong." Indeed there was. Ethel had picked the wrong shoebox-the one with the cards compiled by Husband...
These often owe no loyalty to any elected official. Peabody note, although they spend millions of dollars annually. They also pay off governors against the legislature and may slip from effective control altogether...