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...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
Dartmouth was the next Yale foe. Two plays in that game typify the Dowling style. One was an incomplete pass, the other a safety. Said Dowling afterwards "Boy, if I had gotten by that one man, I would have had SOME yardage...
...next time around. The evil man is the one who does nothing-nothing to protect this country from the "take for grantedness" of the cynics. Your complete misunderstanding of what McCarthy is trying to do only indicates that you, by your own apathy, not ours, will be a powerful foe to the next generation of leaders...
...behind the optimism there was concern. "Our relief," said Oanh, "is mixed with worries about what will happen to us in the future." There was the inevitable fear that a bombing halt might lead to a rapid pullout of U.S. troops, followed by capitulation to the foe. Some of the 200,000 Vietnamese civilians on American payrolls were beginning to worry about their jobs...
...Harvard varsity soccer team will have a brief respite from its demanding Ivy League schedule when it encounters a spirited but unpredictable foe in the sixth annual varsity-alumni game, at 10:30 a.m. today...