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Harvard students may be stocking their liquor chests from nineteen nearby sources instead of eighteen if a young local entrepreneur...
Bobbing Bodies. The opposition has become emboldened. Eighteen months ago, guerrillas aided by Cuba's Fidel Castro invaded Paraguay from Argentina, but Stroessner's army beat them off, and machete-chopped corpses of rebels were soon bobbing down the Parana River. Today new bands of anti-Stroessner rebels reportedly stalk Stroessner from behind the laxly guarded Brazilian frontier. Last March the entire town of General E. Aquino-along with its Stroessner-appointed mayor-rose up in revolt, and had to be cowed by army bullets. Three died, 100 were arrested. During Independence celebrations last May, 2,000 students...
...Eighteen leading newsmen from 11 NATO countries toured the University yesterday in part of a 30-day, coast-to-coast inspection of the United States...
...Dean's eighteen leaders, ten--Khrushchev, Tito, Ben Gurion, Nasser, Nehru, Sukarno, Mao Tse-tung, Bourguiba, Nkrumah and Castro--will be familiar to most of her readers, although she adds a good deal of depth and illumination with extensive citation of the statesman's own writings. The others, two of them dead but still influential, less well-known, or at least less obvious selections...
Charles Knowles' Psalm Book deserves special commendation since it was executed in its entirety by a boy of eighteen. Knowles was a senior at the Putney School, Vermont, when he learned that he had only a year to live. In the time remaining to him, he illustrated and printed ten copies of this remarkably competent book...