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Harvard's track team is rated a top threat to unseat perennial winner Villanova in today's 47th annual IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) Championships in the new Madison Square Garden...
...Representative Robert Duncan - the same man Morse spurned when Duncan ran for the Senate against Republican Mark Hatfield in 1966. Since his defeat (by 24,000 out of 685,000 votes), Duncan, a gregarious Portland lawyer, has never stopped running, pausing last month only long enough to celebrate his 47th birthday and to announce that he will oppose Morse in the May primary...
...city of Wuhan is still in open rebellion, with army units probably aiding the anti-Maoists, the region's navy and air force units loyal to Peking. In Kwangtung province, adjoining Hong Kong, a key transshipment point for Viet Nam, thousands of troops of the 47th Chinese Army surround the capital city of Canton, while elements of three other armies have moved in, presumably to wrest parts of the province back from anti-Mao rebels who control it. Szechwan, China's chief granary, is torn in two and in a state of virtual civil war: anti-Maoists hold...
...Bolivia, Rene Barrientos, 47, ex-Air Force general who deposed President Victor Paz Estenssoro two years ago, was inaugurated as Bolivia's 47th President. With massive support from the country's long-neglected campesinos, Barrientos' motley coalition party of leftists and rightists swept into power with 100 of Congress' 129 seats, promising more of the same firm, reform-minded government that began with Barrientos' military junta. In his inaugural speech, Barrientos assigned top priority to creating 10,000 new jobs in private fields; building scores of new schools and hospitals and at least...
...Rene Barrientos is a swinger who flies his own DC-3, likes the girls so much that until very recently he maintained two families at once. Barrientos also has the kind of charisma that wins votes, and last week he was elected in a landslide as Bolivia's 47th President...