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Over 1,000 alumni from five of the University's Graduate Schools--Arts and Sciences, Law, Design, Education, and Public Administration--will hear David W. Peck and Joseph E. Johnson '27 speak at the annual combined luncheon of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association and the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research this afternoon in the Harkness Quadrangle...
Life Is Short. A newsman asked Khrushchev wearily: "Aren't you getting tired?" "Tired!" said Khrushchev in an amazed tone. "Of course not. I'm a strong man." He added with a grin: "Let me tell you something. Life is short. See all you can. Hear...
What shook Vidali was to hear "Beria, Abakumov and others" named as being responsible for a job he had done himself. Tough Vidali, who lost his right thumb in the Spanish Civil War, was a longtime hatchet man for Stalin's secret police. In Mexico in 1940 he had a hand in the organizational work behind the assassination of Leon Trotsky, and, later, in the New York shooting of exiled Italian anti-Communist Carlo Tresca...
Trieste-born Vittorio Vidali was proud when he got the assignment to bring Tito down. "This means," said one of his aides, "that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito." It hurt Vidali's professional pride to hear described as fake the careful documentation he and Palmiro Togliatti had built up against Tito, which was read out at the 1948 meeting of the Cominform, when Tito was expelled...
...Lies, damned lies and statistics." Thus, only last week, the A.M.A.'s incoming President Elmer Hess, an Erie (Pa.) kidney and bladder specialist, had characterized much of the hard-won information on the subject of smoking and cancer. This week Dr. Hess-a smoker himself-was to hear some hard facts on the subject at A.M.A.'s convention in Atlantic City. Reason for the convention's preoccupation: lung cancer now causes around 24,000 deaths a year in the U.S., which puts it in the category of epidemic diseases...