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Fourteen leotard-clad 'Cliffies rolled around the living room floor of traditionally staid Cabot Hall last night, in the second of the informal, after-dinner Yoga classes offered this year...
...contest most vital to Macapagal was for eight seats in the 24-man Philippine Senate, where, he complains, the twelve Nacionalista Senators have thwarted his ambitious programs for land reform, industrialization and control of inflation. Wearing his traditional baseball cap with its presidential insignia, and clad in a white barong tagalog (a light, loose-sleeved shirt), Macapa gal stumped the grass roots explaining his aims of "making capitalists out of workers...
...mentor Seneca. Poppea, slinkily played in Dallas by Patrice Munsel in a white gown slit to the hip, finally turns Nero's golden-curled head, and he orders Seneca to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Nero's wife Octavia and Poppea's husband Ottone plot an assassination. Ottone, clad in his own mistress' dress, sneaks into Poppea's room but is discovered. Nero wrings the story from Ottone's mistress, Drusilla, by torture. He banishes the plotters, sets his wife adrift alone in a boat, and crowns Poppea empress of Rome...
...fabled pink city of Jaipur, the leaders of India's ruling Congress Party talked themselves hoarse last week in the first intensive effort to refurbish their political image since independence came in 1947. Propped on sausage-shaped bolsters under a huge portrait of Gandhi, the dhoti-clad politicians pledged "self-sacrifice" and "democratic socialism"-and at mealtimes roared off in fin-tailed limousines. Endorsing "non-alignment," party leaders warned ritualistically against "entanglement with military blocs"-even as U.S., British and Indian warplanes flew over New Delhi in joint air exercises. After a six-hour debate on the definition...
...government, which heavily subsidizes all colleges, tried to force complete segregation. It was successfully fought off by alumni, faculty, and students, who asserted that the government sought to violate the autonomy of the universities. But in 1959, despite a march through downtown Johannesburg by 2,500 students and faculty clad in academic robes, the government passed the "Extention of University of Education Act." The law forbade almost all admissions of non-whites to "white" universities. Students coming into the universities now are deprived of the great advantages of being able to discuss South Africa's problems frankly with talented...