Word: cabalism
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John R. Williams '63 has accused his opponent, Peter J. Wallison '63 of being the candidate of a powerful cabal in the HYRC, dominated by president Tom A. Alberg '62, his predecessor Hugh W. Barber, Jr. '60, and Bruce K. Chapman '62, publisher of the liberal Republican magazine Advance...
...Foggy Bottom seeped belated intelligence of a night of indiscretion in the State Department-U.S. Information Agency bowling league: a challenge match last month between the league and a pickup cabal headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and rounded out by Under Secretaries George Ball and George McGhee. Which way did the pins fall? "Well," blurted a DOS spokesman, "I am not at liberty to divulge the score, of course, but Rusk's team got creamed...
...Hunting. Despite the faculty cabal, McGill grimly hung on, working harder at his desk than he did on the practice court. By last week McGill, now a junior, had absorbed enough tutoring and put out enough effort to raise his grades to a C+ average-a level sufficiently elevated to allow him time to work on his defensive game, which by his own admission still needs improvement. Impressed by his earnestness, most faculty members have stopped hunting for flaws in McGill's performance, whether on the court or in the classroom. But Bill the Hill is under no illusion...
...great virtue of Coco's early (and present) clothes is their straightforward design and use of ordinary fabrics. They can be easily copied, cheaply mass-produced. Copied they were, and Coco loved it, refusing to join the cabal of other Paris designers who tried to prevent style piracy. "Thirty years ago," she says proudly, "I went to dinner at Giro's. I remember counting 23 Chanel dresses in the room. But I was sure of only one: mine. I found that a very pretty compliment...
Under cover of a passion for justice, many South Koreans are busier working off old grudges and personal vendettas than in reconstructing their disrupted state. Fortnight ago a cabal of personal enemies and ambitious junior officers forced the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Song Yo Chan, the man primarily responsible for pressuring ex-President Syngman Rhee out of office without a nationwide blood bath. This week the vengeance-seekers caught up with Rhee himself...