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Velasco, a 75-year-old law professor, has been chosen President five times since 1934. Three times Ecuador's army has turned him out of office prematurely, charging his governments with corruption, inefficiency and leftward drift. A master of demogogic oratory, he shuns all formal political parties and organizations and goes straight to the people, depending upon sheer mass appeal "Give me a balcony," he once boasted, "and I could be elected President anywhere." He does not even bother to offer voters a program "Why should I?" he asked at one campaign rally. "What this country needs...
otherwise write poems then throw yourselves on the river to drift away...
...sisters in the U.S. nuclear-sub fleet, carried only two buoys mounted on cables fore and aft to mark her position in the event of disaster, plus a handful of flares that must be fired to the surface and a pair of radio beacons mounted on floats. These drift about at the whim of wind and tide broadcasting in Morse code for only about six hours the ominous message: "S O S-sub sunk...
...often ecstatic--over the happenings. But there remains the growing number who don't find enough in meditation to continue it. One student admits that "For me, the process is tedious, and I got no response. I think meditation is a sporadic thing, anyway. The meditators I know drift in and out, go back to pot, and then try to combine...
...President and Treasurer of Harvard ex officio, is responsible for approving all appointments of more than one year's duration. Unlike the sevenman Corporation, the Overseers are not responsible for the daily operation of the University. They are strictly concerned with long-range questions; with the general drift of the University as a large corporation with huge assets, and as an educational institution...