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Last week Kennedy put U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson aboard a presidential jet and sent him winging to Trinidad to enlist the support of Argentina's pivotal President Arturo Frondizi for the Colombian plan. But after a two-hour, twenty-minute dead-of-night talk with Stevenson, Frondizi would only agree vaguely to "consider" an OAS foreign ministers' conference...
Down to the Ranks. Probably no man can use a myth as a mask in this probing century. Lawrence, having finished the private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1922, tried to lose his identity. Though he had been a colonel at war's end, he enlisted in the R.A.F. as a private soldier under the assumed name of John Hume Ross. In four months the secret was out, and Lawrence was booted out of the service. The next year he was allowed to enlist in the Tank Corps as T. E. Shaw, later transferring to the R.A.F...
...second Ike teammate announced he would make the try. In Lincoln, Neb., former Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton announced he would run for Governor of Nebraska; he will probably face conservative Republican State Chairman Charles Thone in a primary next May. In addition to Mitchell and Seaton, Ike may enlist at least one more candidate. He has been urging former Defense Secretary Thomas Gates to run for office in Pennsylvania; Gates is undecided...
Both the Nationalists and the Reds sought to enlist the support of the 14 million overseas Chinese scattered throughout the lands and islands of Asia. In Thailand, Chinese celebrated Double Ten with firecrackers and dragon parades. In Hong Kong, Nationalist flags far outnumbered those of Red China. Most overseas Chinese still cautiously avoid total commitment to either side. Explained a Chinese industrialist in Hong Kong: "Just because we are anti-Communist doesn't necessarily mean we are pro-Nationalist.'' But Formosa is sure that the number of anti-Communists among the overseas Chinese is increasing...
...group) which has also played a major role in shaping Harvard would also be entirely eliminated--the Harvard-son group. . . It is certainly unlikely that (this) would help the major effort Harvard, like most all private colleges, is making to enlist the continuing moral and financial support of its alumni. Nevertheless, there are considerations, pro and con, on both the Harvard-son and the Boston issues, and it is regrettable that the special faculty report (in 1960) did not deal with these issues more comprehensively and more forthrightly...