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...When Kirkland House ended the 1948-49 school year with the best intramural sports record and was awarded the Straus cup, their victory was a major coup...
...organization's 125 members had not been present the previous year when the executive board had been elected. A small clique led by Charles G. Sellers '45, Abraham P. Goldblum '46 and Maurice C. Benewitz '47 gathered the night of Oct. 2 to plan an anti-Communist coup...
...ambassadorial level in Washington. "Lipkin-Shahak knows the issues, has the credibility and knows how to keep a secret," says the State Department source. Plus, if talks between the two nations take place in Washington, the U.S. remains fully in the picture and positioned to claim a foreign policy coup, should negotiations bear fruit...
...Cubans, fed up with Russians, want him to identify the body and scram--but no, Renko investigates); the sweltering coat because it is a last gift from his wife, dead of medical bungling in Moscow. The story is all amiable, well-told bosh, ending with an attempted military coup engineered (it's hard to explain) by a familiar-looking fellow in fatigues...
...ambassadorial level in Washington. "Lipkin-Shahak knows the issues, has the credibility and knows how to keep a secret," says the State Department source. Plus, if talks between the two nations take place in Washington, the U.S. remains fully in the picture and positioned to claim a foreign policy coup, should negotiations bear fruit...