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Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology, will direct the work, which is financed by a National Science Foundation grant. His chief assistant will be A. Ledyard Smith, Assistant Curator of Middle American Archaeology at the Peabody Museum. Two students, John A. Graham 1G and Albert H. Norweb '59 will complete the group...
With commercial jets about to span the U.S. in 5 ½hours, central geography is no longer such a factor in choosing political convention sites. More important to coffer-conscious political leaders is the amount that major U.S. cities are willing to pay for the prestige of a convention and for the loot that flows in for hotel rooms, meals, entertainment, etc. Last week, when Democratic National Committeemen met in New Orleans to pick their 1960 convention site, representatives of four cities-Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Philadelphia-were willing, and waving sizable sums of cash...
Harvest. By the time Khrushchev announced his new agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked...
Actually, the government was using, as well as showing, force. Some Moroccan leaders dramatically likened the trouble in the Rif ''to the U.S. in 1860." Explained one: ''We must preserve the union. Central authority must be imposed...
...rebellion. And Castro was in no mood for mercy. "They are criminals," he said. "Everybody knows that. We give them a fair trial. Mothers come in and say, 'This man killed my son.' " To demonstrate, Castro offered to stage the courts-martial in Havana's Central Park-an unlikely spot for cool justice but perfect for a modern-day Madame Defarge...