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Last week 30 of the 58 trustees* of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. met with the President for the first time to tell him just how their program would work. It contained a dash of Rhodes, a smidgin of Fulbright and a seasoning of Point Four. Its object: to train "rising young leaders" in non-Communist nations to help solve their countries' most urgent social and economic problems...
...defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from his second floor window and landed safely in the garden of the French embassy next door dressed only in his underwear...
Married. Marjorie Jackson, 22, Olympic women's 100 and 200-meter dash champion; and Peter Nelson, 22, member of Australia's Olympic cycling team; in Lithgow, Australia...
Disheartening as this dash of cold water might be to Europe's neutralists and for-lorn-hopers, Russia's tough words were considered downright encouraging in some ways by Western diplomats. They find the Kremlin's refusal to negotiate defensive, rather than a sign of confidence and strength. In France, Russia's intransigent tone was calculated to help overcome
Alex Haegler made a beautiful solo dash from midfield in the final quarter, outdistancing three defenders and barely missing a shot which would have tied the game...