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Driving a 1956 MGa, John C. Ruch '59 of Eliot House, received the Harvard Motor Sports Club Driver's Championship trophy. Ruch amassed a total of 156 points in ice trials, rallies, and gymkhanas to take a substantial lead of 20 points over second place John Welch '59 of Dunster House, and third place Mike Chamberlain '59 of Kirkland House...
Handling a modified MGa stock car, Ruch garnered his points in a fortnightly series of events sponsored by the Motor Club. Ruch exhibited unusual strength in the Gymkhana events, going undefeated in both inter-collegiate and Conference sports car contests. An award of a silver bowl was presented to Ruch at the final meeting of the Motor Club by vice president Lynn Harris '57-3, of Eliot House...
...husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily at work transferring machine guns, pistols and other trappings of rebellion from an outboard-motor boat to a shrimp boat...
...trouble from the moment he tried to get his arms and his seven-man army together on an invasion-bent shrimp boat named Elaine (he is part owner of a fishing fleet). In a chartered yacht named Nola, he rendezvoused with Elaine and a pair of arms-laden outboard-motor boats. One of the outboards' cargoes was transferred to Elaine without mishap, but when Tito turned to the other it was gone-pulled under the water by a too-heavy anchor on a short line in a rising tide...
SHILLELAGH MISSILE, Army's newest-for close-in fighting, like its Irish counterpart-will be developed by Ford Motor Co. subsidiary, Aeronutronic Systems, Inc., under contract worth $23 million. Solid-fuel, surface-to-surface Shillelagh will be operational around...