Word: kans
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Billy Mills, a 26-year-old Marine from Coffeyville, Kan., took 46 seconds off his best time ever yesterday and gave the United States its first gold medal in the history of the Olympic 10,000-meter...
Tokyo, the world's largest and ugliest city, is at the same time its most dynamic. Founded in the 15th century by a poetically minded samurai named Do-kan Ota, it wore the name of Edo during its early, bucolic years. Then the populace found its major thrill in watching whales cavort through the clear, blue waters of the bay. But by 1720 Tokyo had attained a population of a million-making it the largest city in the pre-Industrial Revolution world, and whale-watching gave way to more active pursuits. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Tokyo came...
...Archer '65, of Eliot House and Wichita, Kan., was elected president of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. for 1964-65 yesterday. Archer succeeds Bradford K. Perry '64 as head of the nearly $2 million student enterprise...
Tomorrow's activities get underway at noon in Wellesley's Alumnae Hall with a keynote address by Rep. Robert Dole (R-Kan...
...gaily through local folk dances. Seeking more merriment, the group moved on to an army officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms up" in Chinese), Chou finally sat down to a sumptuous banquet. Communist Ruler Enver Hoxha described it as "a family dinner, just as if you were at home." After such a hectic night of pub crawling, Chou probably wished that he were...