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...months ago, Pakistan's Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan last week got an Elvis Presley-like response. Functioning as a kind of electoral college, close to 80,000 recently elected village councilmen were allowed to vote yes or no to the question: "Have you confidence in the President, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan?" No less than 95.6% put their approving mark beside a smiling multi-clad picture of the field marshal. Those who did not trust the field marshal had the choice of checking a blank blue space...
...padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn, published full details on President Ayub's plans for his inaugural three days before he was even elected...
Dealers speculated that if the picture's former owner, Lady Salmond (wife of R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Salmond), had offered it on the open market it would have brought well over $1,000,000, easily topping the $616,000 sale of Cezanne's Boy in Red Vest and the record $770,000 recently paid for Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. But few Englishmen can afford such sums. Had the picture left the country, the government would have collected an enormous estate duty on it. Lady Sal-mond's private sale to the National Gallery was taxfree...
...high-ceilinged office in the Elysée Palace early last week, a pair of elderly men who have been friends since their military student days at St. Cyr 50 years ago dispassionately discussed their opposing views on Algeria. Sympathetically, brisk, beefy Alphonse Juin, the only living marshal of France, told Charles de Gaulle that he looked tired. Answered De Gaulle: "I am old. Death waits for me, I know." Then, wearily, he added: "But I have never been so resolved...
...Francis Bowditch '35 will serve as Chief Marshal and lead the alumni at Commencement this spring. His selection was announced yesterday by Judge Paul C. Reardon '32, president of the Alumni Association...