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...this uncommitted, neutralist bloc, Khrushchev and Bulganin offered a new message: You don't have to apply for membership in our club; we have already enrolled you and ask no dues. Want fac tories? We will help build them. Have you opponents? We will hate them...
...recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club, the "Med Fac," and the Harvard Washington Corps had chosen to stay...
Gradually, the science departments escaped to more spacious quarters, and Holden became a medical museum. But the collection of skeletons was far too tempting and the building too easily plundered. Midnight raids and subsequent wall displays of skulls and thigh bones became a mid-century tradition. The notorious Med. Fac. has been traced back to these raids. This addition to undergraduate nihilism rounded out Holden's nineteenth century innovations...
This effort probably exhausted the patriotic group for the soon faded away to be replaced in the middle of the century by the nortorions "Med. Fac.," a secret society famed for its violent initiations. The College put up with the society until it sent a bogus diploma to the Czar of Russia, reaping a handsome gift in return. Lingering on despite administrative wrath, the Society continued to be happily destructive until the turn of the century, when its nihilistic bent culminated in the blowing up of the old College pump in front of Hollis...
...proof, the white paper offered fac similes of letters allegedly written by two exiled Guatemalan rebels, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes (now in El Salvador) and Lieut. Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (in Honduras). Even if authentic, the letters appeared to prove nothing but the well-known fact that both officers would dearly love to oust their enemies in the Arbenz regime...