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...Frontier was beginning to back away from the fad it had fielded. The President's own Fitness Council warned of the dangers to the unaccustomed-perhaps even a heart attack. That was enough for portly Pierre Salinger, who had promised he would carry the Administration's banner in a do-or-die walkathon with newsmen. Salinger canceled the hike, explaining: "My shape is not good. While this fact may have been apparent to others for some time, its full significance was pressed upon me as a result of a six-mile hike last Sunday. I have done little...
...Labor Party last week chose a new leader to carry its banner against the Tories in Britain's coming general election. The winner: Harold Wilson, 46, a pipe-smoking intellectual with a phenomenal memory, a following of mixed admirers, and a love of political combat...
Earlier in the day Tomlimson presented a "banner of confidence" to representative of Gov. Endicott Peabody '42 and Boston Mayor John F. Collins. The banner is of silk, 15 inches square, with designs of the "scepter of righteousness," the "star of hope," and the "crown of victory" in purple on a field of broad bands of red, white, and blue...
...poorly. The letter from Dana L. Farnsworth, chief of the University Health Service, and Dean Watson, declared that students should not take "mind-distorting drugs" because they are bad. Granted, such a move puts the University in the safe position of having warned its students, and provides Boston with banner headlines for a day; still it probably did not prevent a single undergraduate so determined from taking drugs, while it may have aroused the curiosity of those who had been indifferent. If the University is to guide its students, it must do so by providing information about the dangers...
Just how Hoffa got hold of the transcript was not revealed. But the transcript did exist, and next day Stahlman printed it. The conversation came in the first days of the trial-after someone purporting to be a Banner reporter had called prospective jurors to find out how they felt. When Stahlman, a crusty 64-year-old, heard of the jury tampering, he offered a $5,000 reward for arrest of the impostor. Bobby tried to dissuade him-on grounds that detailed publication of the incident might cause a mistrial. Excerpts of the conversation...