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...SYRIA had been promised $193 million from the Communist bloc, $150 million from Russia alone. But all but $15 million of that was proffered prior to the nation's fling at union with Egypt from 1958 to 1961. The satellites built a number of small projects: cement plants, sugar refineries, a grain elevator and an airfield. But the Russians have been foot-dragging on their own big projects for two chemical factories and a railroad as Syria's manifest political instability (18 governments in 15 years) dawned on them, and completion of the Russian projects is still years...
Scott said that he had talked with Aguirre about the fling. But Aguirre had vowed that if called to testify, "I'll deny it, even if the committee has photographs . . . My wife is expecting a denial and she'll get it. I'll take the First through the 28th.*" Before the committee last week Aguirre was as good as his word, refused to answer 66 questions...
...membership of student organizations with regard to race and university status, the administration now proposes to tell these groups which of their members may be elected officers. Although this restriction may have some merit for groups organized for the purpose of giving undergraduates, in Dean Watson's words, "their fling," the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club impresses me as a serious group of undergraduate and graduate and special students concerned in their own way with the fundamental problems of American society. In the context of a political activist organization Dean Watson's remarks seem simply irrelevant...
...Special Students have had their fling," Watson said. "Why should they be manipulating undergraduate activities?" He stated that the rule change was necessary, so "there won't be any more Mary Gillmors...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. As a bubbly colleen who chances a fling with a middle-aged author. Britain's Rita Tushingham makes a trite tale seem fresh, poignant, and deliciously funny...