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...past two years, Charles P. Smith '76-3 has divided his time between two ivory towers: Harvard, where he pursues a degree in history; and Montpelier, Vermont, where he annually participates in the four-month sessions of the state legislature as an elected representative...
...Japanese, the Russians and then by the authoritarian Syngman Rhee regime. Now he knew he faced imprisonment again. And so, each day during his trial, he came to the Seoul courtroom dressed in beige funeral robes to symbolize the death of his freedom-and of Korean democracy. When the four-month trial finally ended, he and 17 distinguished co-defendants were sentenced to terms ranging from two to eight years each. Said Hahm: "These were the best of our people. They have nothing to be ashamed of. It was a matter of conscience...
...complained Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans and a future King of France (1830-48), after a four-month swing through the U.S. in 1797. Four years earlier, the young aristocrat, whose father was guillotined by revolutionists, had begun a 21-year exile, spent mostly in Europe. Then 23 years old, the duke filled two notebooks as he explored the exotic New World, writing of "very pretty" and "coquettish" Cherokee women, "gross, lazy and inhospitable" whites in Tennessee, and George Washington's "most exquisite politeness" during a dinner at Mount Vernon. The journal has just been published...
William A. Lee, personnel administrator for Buildings and Grounds, who conducted a four-month investigation into the complaint by Holcombe, said in a letter to Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, dated last Wednesday that "based on all the evidence I have been able to obtain, I cannot conclude that a racial epithet was used as charged by Mr. Holcombe...
...space scientists, who have sent at least nine unmanned probes arcing toward the cloud-shrouded planet -compared with only four sent by the U.S. Last week, as Venus moved into a favorable position once more (as it does every 18 months), the Soviets launched two more ships on the four-month, 230 million-mile journey...