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...election day, voters had to dip their left thumb in a bottle of indelible red ink to prevent repeat performances. Even without repeats, the popular winner by far was Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, 38, whose United National Independence Party drew 65,000 votes with its slogan, "Kwacha!" (Dawn), and its appeal for more black power. But Kaunda won only 14 seats, and Welensky's United Federal Party, with one-third of the votes, won 15. The African National Congress of roisterous Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's ex-mentor, won five seats. Ten seats were left vacant because too few voters...
...first nine months. Much of the comeback resulted from General Dynamics' decision to write off the losses from its Convair 880 and 990 jets in a single year (1961) instead of spreading them over several years, and its prudent use of tax advantages. But the black ink also reflected a newly lean, hard look in the company's top management...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot '82, Harvard's oldest living alumnus, died yesterday at his Beacon Hill home. He was 101. Cabot was founder and ex-chairman of the Godfrey L. Cabot Ink Co., and served as honorary president of the New England Citizens' Crime Commission...
...Ink for the Embassy. Not understanding why the U.S. had acted, Russians were prepared to be indignant, if also a little frightened, when Pravda told them: "The American ruling quarters are acting like cowardly beasts . . . The imperialist aggressors must remember that if they try to fan the fire of world war, they will inevitably burn in its flames." At that, endless resolutions from factories and collective farms poured in to Moscow sympathizing with poor little Cuba. A Moscow circus staged a "Cuban Carnival" in which Russians disguised as Cubans danced wildly to Latin music and raced about with beards...
Anticipating a different kind of carnival, American diplomats in Moscow boarded up the embassy's ground-floor windows. A few hours later, 200 Russian students gathered before the building waving placards and shouting "Cuba yes, Yankee No!" Bottles of purple ink were hurled against the embassy wall before 50 Russian militiamen broke up the crowd. This first contrived affair was relatively mild. Later 3,000 ink-hurling students and workers smashed windows and chanted slogans for 3½ hours...