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...General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...
...bland and unassuming Northwesterners suddenly close ranks against the wild man from the East. His teaching career in ruins, saddled with Pauline Gilley and her two children, Levin departs-uncertain to the very end whether he is Pauline's savior or her victim...
...college for the academic elite, and against making it a "pre-graduate" school. He saw a real danger that the kind of student body he did so much to shape was to be replaced by a sterile, super-intellectual community. For his strongly-worded warnings the release substitutes bland sentiments ranging in age from 10 to 50 years...
...Dean Wilbur J. Bender's final report on admissions is a stunning and appalling investigation of the trend of College policy which virtually demolishes the bland, mousy optimism of last year's Faculty Admissions report under a cascade of facts...
Since the visit was not official, neither guest was offered lodging at Blair House; Sukarno paid for the best suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and Keita stayed at the Mali embassy. At the airport, Kennedy seemed grim as he shook hands with the visitors, gave a bland speech of welcome that pointed up his own concern for peace. Wearing his customary sunglasses, pitji (pillbox hat) and rows of ribbons, fun-loving President Sukarno-who, during the recent Belgrade conference of neutralists, had spent many of his off-duty hours cavorting in a nightclub called the Snakepit-answered that he hoped...