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...leading evangelist of the new spirit is the governor of the Bank of Thailand, Dr. Puey Ungphakorn. Publicity-shy Puey, 49, holder of a Ph.D. in economics from London University, refuses honors and decorations, keeps his birth date a secret in order to thwart the Thai custom of showering public figures with presents, and tends zealously to his three jobs-at the bank, as director of fiscal policy for Thailand's Finance Ministry and as dean of the economics faculty at Thammasat University. Last month Puey quietly put together a formal alliance of central-bank governors from Ceylon, Laos...
...memo prepared by John R. Seeley, chairman of the sociology department has touched off a campus-wide debate, which will culminate next Wednesday in three simultaneous meetings where undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members will decide what action--if any--they should take to thwart the Selective Service's plan to use grades as the basis of a student's draft status...
...hand. As for the G.O.P., Minority Leader Everett Dirksen warned potential no-shows: "By God, you're going to be here." To a man, they were. Thus, after a Dirksen-led filibuster had tied up the Senate for a total of 13 days in an attempt to thwart the Administration's bill to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, the issue finally came to a vote...
...expand agricultural production. Its population is growing far faster than its food supply; with this year's severe drought, India faces its most critical food shortage in two decades. Apart from its domestic problems, India in the past adopted a holier-than-thou attitude toward American efforts to thwart the Communists' grab for South Viet Nam, but clamored for U.S. military help to repel Red China's threat to its own territory...
...into third place in total votes, but there is a strong possibility that he lured away more Democrats (because of his Catholicism) than Republicans (because of his ideology) and helped elect, rather than defeat, John Lindsay. In Virginia, a Conservative Party candidate garnered nearly 70,000 votes-enough to thwart G.O.P. hopes of upsetting Harry Byrd's not-so-purring machine...