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...were unexceptionable. The United Nations lowered its flag to half-staff?an unprecedented tribute to one of Kennedy's modest official rank. Pope Paul announced at a formal audience the shooting of the junior Senator from New York. Condolences came from Charles de Gaulle, Aleksei Kosygin, Queen Elizabeth, Marshal Tito and scores of other world leaders...
Baker, First Marshal of the Senior Class, received the Bingham Award as Harvard's most valuable athlete. Captain of the cross country team, he paced the harriers to an undefeated season and Harvard's first Heptagonal championship in a decade. With sophomore Roy Shaw, Baker chased the four minute barrier in the mile throughout the winter and spring, finally lowering the Harvard record to 4:00.2 in the Outdoor IC4A's. A very strong runner, the wiry Englishman had two other particularly outstanding days. Against Princeton he won both the mile and the half mile, setting a University record...
Each girl found a copy of the statement on her seat when she arrived for Commencement rehearsal. Isabelle Dry, the college marshal, had read the statement and consented to its distribution at rehearsal...
...commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa and put the theatrical Monty in his place. Churchill's press officers set out to obliterate the fact that the Eighth Army had already won one battle at El Alamein and had the superiority to win others. Moreover, though Field Marshal Rommel was a sick and dispirited man commanding a weakened army, Churchill revived the myth of the invincible Desert Fox so that Monty would have to deal with a worthy foe. Even with the stage so cleverly set, Thompson charges that Monty still fought a static, overly cautious battle, sacrificing...
...bombings on German cities (TIME, May 10). Now Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...