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...parties, and announced the formation of a three-man junta. It is headed by Provisional President Juan Carlos Onganía, Illia's one-time army commander in chief who, until his resignation last November, was considered his country's guardian of constitutional government and the military mainstay that kept Illia in power...
...track coaches selected Chris Pardee, Tony Lynch, and Trey Burns for the team's annual Improvement Awards. Ron Wilson, Harvard's mainstay in the field events, copped the Sam Felton and Little Shotput Awards...
...medicine is now recognizing that the general practitioner fills a need that is not being met. He tends to serve in rural areas, and to be the mainstay of the poor and the slum dweller, who cannot afford the several specialists many families now have for their varied ills. Most of all, the family doctor, available in greater numbers, would help restore the oldtime warmth to the doctor-patient relationship...
...little that churches will not present these days for the greater glory of God. Last week CBS put on an hour-long concert of ecclesiastical jazz by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, video-taped at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Southern Baptists, besides their soap-operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers...
Forward Polly Rogers, a veteran back for her second year, also sparked several 'Cliffe rallies. Theo Stillman was the mainstay of the backcourt and provided height for the hoopsters. Tracy Taylor, Jenny Flinton, and Carlin Meyer '69 rounded out the squad...