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While casually perusing our mail yesterday we were rather startled by an invitation to enter the first U.S. intercollegiate elephant race to be held on May 11 at Orange County State College in Fullerton, California.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gets Elephant Race Bid; Officials Doubtful We Will Enter | 5/1/1962 | See Source »

Kaunda burst into tears.) Nationalist leaders nicknamed Welensky "the Elephant"; in their eyes, he was almost literally a white elephant in modern Africa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Royboy | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

The White Elephant. Promoted to engineer by the railroad. Royboy revived the moribund railroaders' trade union and became its leader. He then set out on a self-education program, broke railroad rules on his trips by turning the throttle over to the fireman; by the light of the firebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Royboy | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Says Nyasaland's Hastings Banda : "We will soon write the Elephant's epitaph."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Royboy | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Denying that he would intervene energetically in the Massachusetts Democratic senatorial primary, in which his brother Ted is running against House Speaker John McCormack's nephew Ed, the President quipped: "We're not sending in any troops, just a few training missions. We're confining ourselves to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Family Jokes | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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