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Before dawn one day last week, police and armed civilian partisans of Haiti's President François Duvalier burst in on the country's top remaining Roman Catholic cleric. Haitian-born Bishop Remy Augustin was hustled off to jail so. fast he forgot his dental plates. Fourteen hours later he was expelled from the island. Two days later four more priests were expelled...
Although giving financial aid is its chief function, the Harvard-Yenching Institute also attempts other methods of assistance. Every year fourteen professors from East Asian universities are brought to Harvard for a year or more of study, Reischauer noted...
...Crimson was behind for exactly fourteen seconds. Dean Alpine, from a position to the left of the Clarkson goal, passed behind the cage to Ted Ingalls. Ingalls relayed the puck out toward his defense, but the pass was intercepted by Tom Heitsman, who shot the puck past goalie Bill Armstrong...
...writings, thus turning the sequences into stark, strident, sometimes awkward exchanges of punch lines rather than into coherent dialogues. But punchy they were, as when Clemenceau (Eric Berry) delivered his famous judgment on Wilson (Harry Townes): "God gave us his Ten Commandments; we broke them. Wilson gave us his Fourteen Points; we shall see." On the whole, the note of authenticity was worth the price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough T. R. (boisterously acted by Larry Blyden) with a reactionary J. P. Morgan, who remarked magnificently...
...wildly receptive crowd that he had no intention of denying a charge that he has "pork-barreled" Federal funds to help the state's employment. He said he was proud to be a pork-barreler if it meant getting jobs for New Englanders, pointing out that one out of fourteen industrial workers in the state today holds a job procured from the government...