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With Vie Niederhoffer back at number one after a victory this weekend in the Harvard Club of New York tournament, the squash team will take on a crack Amherst varsity this afternoon at 3 p.m. at Amherst. Amherst was able to take three individual matches in an away contest with a highly ranked Princeton nine, and is expressed to do as well or better on the home courts against Harvard...
Enter Walker. When the Kennedy Administration took over, it made evident that it was going to crack down on military talkers. The first victim was Chief of Naval Operations, Arleigh Burke. A routine anti-Communist Burke speech was heavily cut by Pentagon censors on grounds that it might roil negotiations for the release of two U.S. RB-47 flyers held prisoner in the Soviet Union. In the week that followed, lesser military leaders submitting speeches for clearance got them back heavily blue-penciled. Finally, last spring, the controversy blew wide open with the Walker case...
...Loving You As I Do." When World War II came. Thurmond put down his gavel. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division, Thurmond went into Normandy by glider on Dday, was injured when his glider crashed, stayed in action until his men had secured their objective; his gallantry won him a Bronze Star. Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve...
Last November smallpox erupted with more than usual violence in Karachi. It has killed at least 267 people and made many more sick. But not until five infected Pakistanis had flown the disease to England did Pakistani Health Minister, General Wajid Ali Burki, crack down on Karachi's sloppy vaccination and isolation practices. While Britons rushed for emergency vaccinations, health inspectors carted off newly-arrived Pakistanis' clothing for disinfection. Authorities in London sputtered that all the infected Pakistanis had "valid" vaccination certificates when they entered. But a Pakistani admitted that in his country these can easily be bought...
...After four years of haggling over suitable candidates, the Baseball Writers Association finally got around to electing two more players to baseball's Hall of Fame. The choices: fireballing Cleveland Pitcher Bob Feller, 43, and fiery Dodger Infielder Jackie Robinson-first Negro to crack the major leagues' color...