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...Rivers. In the last stages of negotiations, the diplomats worked 18-hour days against a deadline of July 18, finally winding up the bulk of their business at 2:40 a.m. Saturday, July 19. The last hitch was over the description of détente, which the Soviets wanted to call "irreversible." The final wording was "to promote the course of détente"-a riverine allusion that prompted a French diplomat to observe, "There are some pretty dry rivers in Europe." Another problem during the closing days of the negotiations was posed by Malta's Socialist Premier...
...system does have its drawbacks: As AHA President John L. Moore, Jr. '51 admits, "The board of directors doesn't speak for everyone." And according to Shultz, some directors are shy about appearing before clubs. Shultz says that the largest hitch in the system is that all the clubs don't get equal attention, although the directors, one-third of whom are regional directors appointed by the clubs, try to spread themselves around...
...scourge of Glitter Gulch has rarely been that reticent. Born in Brooklyn 65 years ago, Herman Milton Greenspun hit Las Vegas after a World War II Army hitch and bought an ailing Vegas newspaper. He quickly won national prominence-and circulation-with slashing attacks on Senators Joseph McCarthy and Patrick McCarran, whose Red baiting offended him. McCarran died in 1954 in Hawthorne, Nev., just after giving a speech in which he exclaimed: "Greenspunism must be defeated!" Since then, the whip of Greenspunism has been laid mostly on local figures, including Howard Hughes, who left for the Bahamas in 1970. Greenspun...
Hogan said he might try to hitch on to a club this summer even if he isn't grabbed to the draft. Thomas is thinking in terms of playing for Canada in the Pan Am games this fall...
...hadn't really talked to decided to go with me. His name was Bill and he seemed a little bit suspicious to me because he was awful young and all he had was a coat under his arm. But Bill assured me he had lots of experience hitching cross country and he showed it too by telling me right off that we couldn't hitch in Reno and anyway we'd pick up more traffic moving east if we walked to where the Reno bypass met up with Route...