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Houphouët maintains tight press and radio censorship but is relatively gentle with his political opponents. When University of Abidjan students organized a march on his palace, protesting his conservative policies, Houphouët had the demonstrators taken to a military camp and put on a stiff regimen of calisthenics until they meekly asked to return to classes. Older opponents are summoned to Houphouët's plantation 170 miles from the capital and given a friendly, fatherly talk-and sometimes a government appointment or a case of Houphouët's favorite champagne...
...Cancer Too. The clenched fist of a patient describing his chest pain is a vivid illustration of the discomfort at the time of an occlusion. About two weeks after an otherwise undetected occlusion, the patient may have a hand (usually only one) that is swollen, shiny, discolored and stiff. The stiffness comes from thickening of the fibrous layer just below the skin down the middle of the palm. It may pull the fingers together and sometimes also downward. Skin thickening and stiffness of this type may be the signs of a previous and hitherto-undetected coronary occlusion...
...annual midyear meeting, the A.B.A.'s house of delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt the standards proposed more than a year ago by a special ten-man committee (TIME, Oct. 7, 1966). Led by Justice Paul Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the group had proposed some stiff rules; the delegates adopted every...
Still recovering from last Saturday's crushing loss to Dartmouth, Harvard will have much the same problem it's had all year--lack of depth. In addition, the Crimson front-liners will get stiff competition from some talented Tigers...
...quartet is composed of seniors Jim Baker, Dave McKelvey, and Trey Burns--who with Jeff Huvelle hold the University two-mile relay record of 7:33.6--and sophomore Roy Shaw. They will face stiff competition in the Garden, running in the same heat with Villanova Michigan, Maryland State...