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...leathery General Li Tsung-jen, the dark horse from Kwangsi. He broke boldly with the Chinese custom of never praising oneself: "My election would symbolize the triumph of the common people." He boasted of his plebeian origin. As a farm boy he had tended water buffalo, plowed paddy fields, split kindling; so he understood the hardships of the peasants. "Without solving the peoples' livelihood," he declared, "all military ventures are doomed to failure." He urged "land to the tillers," an end to "bureaucratic capital," cleanup of corruption, more capable men in government, frank speaking to the Gimo...
...Jones & Co.'s Wall Street Journal (circ. 130,000), which has split out of its narrow financial news britches, took another step toward its goal of a national newspaper. Already published in New York and San Francisco, the Journal added a Southwest edition, printed in Dallas. Starting circulation...
Whatever adults-and sponsors-may think of such carryings-on, Hawthorne and his peculiar banana-split lingo have become the rage of Southern California's younger set. Most popular root word is "hogan" (example: "I was driving my carahogan in from Pasadena-hogan so I could get a hoganburger"). The young folks also overwork Hawthorne's favorite adjectives: keen, peachy-keen, and oh-so-peachy-keen...
...Forsyth can shut out Scot Johnson for second and third in the hammer. If Lockett, Lawrence, and Torrey can outvault the equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis from getting first...
...order to function in a workable fashion, the Student Council has split itself into committees of one sort or another--right now there are some 37 such committees. In order to find out what these committees have accomplished, the Council asks each of them to submit a report--almost every weekly Council meeting is devoted to discussion of one or more of such reports. Last December one of these committees--the one on Class Affairs--drew up and offered to the Council a comprehensive and well-thought-out plan for a revised schedule of class activities and organization. After...