Word: berkley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...
...summons to arms comes from the self-styled Tibetan Brigade, a force being organized at the University of California in Berkley. Now in the process of raising men and money for the mission, the Brigade hopes to enter Tibet this summer and give military, moral, and material aid to the anti-Communist native forces...
Executive Officer David Duke, contacted in Berkley last night, reported that about 200 men across the country, including the 40 Harvard students, have expressed interest in the operation. Stressing the well-rounded nature of Brigade cadres, an early progress report notes the following composition...
...Radcliffe undergraduate and two Law School students have been awarded Rotary Foundation Fellowships for advanced study abroad during 1959-60. They are Linda S. Mirin '59, of Coggeshall House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Jerrold K. Footlick 3L of 8. Berkley St. and Wooster, Ohio; and Edwin E. McAmis 3L, of Matthews Hall and Sikeston...
Both Landau and Gordon will go to Berkley for the NCAA tournament June 13-14 at the University of California. There Landau will meet the best in collegiate hurdling, including Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem, and Glenn Davis of Ohio State, the Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion. Gilbert last week broke the world's record in the 440-yard dash...