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Kennedy warned Gromyko of the gravity of the Laos crisis. U.S. prestige is so deeply committed in Laos, he said, that the crisis could explode into World War III. Gromyko retorted without bluster. He urged that the U.S. halt its military buildup of marines, guerrilla fighters and helicopters in northern Thailand until the Soviets had time to reply to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer. Kennedy did not commit himself. But the fact was that the U.S. buildup in Thailand did slacken during the week...
...tennis-playing days, Sidney Wood Jr. was a wiry scrapper who made up for his lack of strength with a ferocious will that led him to the 1931 Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's game-even if the fault...
...Sidney III never developed the father's obsession for the game. He was too interested in too many other things -hockey, baseball and an elaborate game of stickball he invented and played with all his father's zest. Two years ago, young Sid left Yale to spend the winter with his father in New York. "He was worried about his future in tennis because of some trouble he was having with his back," says the father. "His marks were down. And some of his depression came from his split home-his mother and I were divorced...
...tennis players were driving down to Miami to start the 1961 season. Their sta tion wagon plunged off the road outside Fayetteville, N.C. The crash killed Team Captain T. Craig Joyner and injured Stewart Ludlum Jr. Last week, after relays of doctors had worked for four days, Sidney Wood III died...
George A. Ranney III '61, chairman of SCCEP, answered the dissenters by saying that the report was meant for people who have a knowledge of the structure and problem of Sophomore Standing, and don't need to be informed of them. That was also basically Ranney's answer to the objection that the report did not deal with the "major concern." the philosophy of Sophomore Standing...