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Comrades-in-Arms. Many responded by sending their first citizens to Washington, a tribute not only to the 34th President of the U.S. but also to the commander of the Western forces that defeated Hitler and liberated Europe in World War II. Eighteen heads of state or chiefs of government were on hand, as well as a score of foreign ministers. Among the major Western allies only Britain, a country with special ties to Eisenhower, did not send a delegation of the highest echelon. Lord Mountbatten, leader of the British contingent, was outranked by most other delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Home to the Heartland | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...Eighteen members of the varsity track team traveled to balmy Jamaica last week for their annual Spring training trip, in preparation for the season-opening meet this Saturday at Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Squad Runs, Suns On Spring Training Trip | 4/9/1969 | See Source »

Most painful, Director Jack Viertel stretched the eighteen minute playlet to half an hour, on the theory that unhappiness slows all conversations down to 121/2 rpm. He mis-paced differently in the mask scene, which moved too fast to contain the action and the full cast...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Dollar Theatre | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

...last eighteen months, opposition to ROTC has spread to universities such as Boston, St. Lawrence, and Columbia, where the program is entirely voluntary. Opponents of voluntary ROTC base their case on broad issues of educational integrity...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: HOW ROTC Got Started . . . | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

ATKINS did not stage a Brooke-like campaign. As a student in the Law School, and a former militant executive of the Boston NAACP, Atkins ran for the Council last year as a progressive spokesman for Roxbury. In a mild upset, he came in seventh among eighteen for one of the nine city-wide seats...

Author: By Michael J. Barrett, | Title: Black Pol | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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