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...following years, scholastic reorganization in most Latin American countries incorporated to some extent the tenents of university autonomy. The strong arm of dictator Juan Vicente Gomez, however, slowed reform movements in Venezuela. Not until the mid 1940's, under the moderate leadership of President Isaias Medina, did larger changes take place. The plans for the present network of Venezuelan universities as well as the principle of university autonomy were then established...
...begin a 600-mile road across the desert and mountains from Mecca to Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh. Since setting up his company in 1938 (he learned construction techniques as an Aramco laborer), Ben Laden, 49, has completed $500 million in projects, including jetports in Jidda and Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building a new mosque over Mohammed's tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citro...
Died. Harry Sacher, 60, longtime mouthpiece for U.S. Communists, who, in defense of eleven top party members in 1949, so badgered, bullied and bedeviled federal Judge Harold Medina, hoping to ruin the jurist's health and thus gain a mistrial, that after the Reds' conviction Medina sentenced him to six months in jail (which he served, though a similar sentence in 1956 for refusing to tell Congress whether he was a Communist was overturned by the Supreme Court); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Sniffed Sacher to Medina: "If it were necessary in the cause of liberty...
...each turn. It was all in vain. The crowd greeted each name with a round of approval, especially heavy for such favorites as Douglas MacArthur, Cuban Exile Leader José Miró Cardona, Jonas Salk, Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi, General Omar Bradley, Judge Harold Medina and Casey Stengel. By the time Hope took over, midnight was near and introductions had to be com pressed to a simple announcement of each cover subject's name. But characteristically, Hope could not resist bringing the party back to a laughing mood. "I know it is one of these speed things...
JOHN JAY McCLOY NEIL HOSLER McCLOY ANDREW G. McNAUGHTON HAROLD MEDINA RICHARD K. MELLON PIERRE MENDES-FRANCE GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ETHEL MERMAN PERLE MESTA ROBERT B. MEYNER JOSÉ MIRÓ CARDONA RAYMOND MOLEY JEAN MONNET JAMES MORAN DELESSEPS S. MORRISON CHARLES G. MORTIMER LUIS MUNOZ MAŔIN PATRICE MUNSEL CLINTON MURCHISON JR. JOHN MURCHISON ROBERT D. MURPHY JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY...