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Ravenel, presently an outfielder on the baseball team, will long be remembered for his outstanding performances at quarterback for the Crimson football team the past three seasons. Holder of the highest undergraduate elective office in the College--First Class Marshal--Ravenel was recently awarded a $5,000 grant for world travel from Corning Glass Company. Ravenel is the fourth representative of football and the second of baseball to be named...
Planeload. The Communists would be happy to stick around. Happiest of all were the Red Chinese, who were gleeful to find themselves back at a bargaining table-and propaganda forum-with the civilized world. The chosen delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport...
Gromyko talked last week about "Austria-type" neutrality for Laos, a phrase that does not make much sense when applied to so primitive a land, but sounds soothing to the British and French. The Chinese are blunter. Marshal Chen demanded "a unified, independent" Laos and did not mention neutrality at all. Obviously, Chen was delighted to hang around indefinitely, flaunting China's power in an area where the West was in disarray. One possible clue was in the length of the lease he took on a fleet of 20 cars. Expiration date: November...
...National Security Council, President Kennedy decided to about double U.S. military aid for South Viet Nam, to some $80 million a year. Kennedy has already sent General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...
...missed by a jew hairs. The first one was British Field Marshal Sir William Slim...