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Early Days. Born Oct. 23, 1895, son of a Swedish immigrant who stubbornly scratched an existence out of 80 South Dakota acres near Parker (pop. 1,148), Clinton Presba Anderson had made his way through his third year in college (Dakota Wesleyan, University of Michigan) by 1917. Then, after an Army doctor rejected him for officers' training camp upon finding a tubercular infection (Anderson has since suffered from diabetes, shingles in 1949, and a coronary in 1950), he went to New Mexico, spent nine months in a sanatorium, stayed on in the Southwest...
...great square built around the ruins of the St. Giles Church tower. A cultural center, built around a new Guildhall School of Music and Drama, housing a library, art gallery and restaurant. Near the school will be an artificial lake, a theater and concert hall...
...Spain. Left behind by the great revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, Spain moved from feudalism to confused socialism to fascism through one of history's most destructive civil wars. After that came the mismanagement and the narrow imagination of Francisco Franco's regime. Spain was near economic disaster when U.S. aid began to arrive...
When the army took over power in Pakistan last October, one of its first acts was to arrest the Bhatti boys. In underwater caves near Karachi, navy frogmen found an incredible two tons of Bhatti gold. Abdullah, closemouthed on the stand but believed to be the brains of the operation, has already been sentenced to life imprisonment. Then Playboy Kassim went on trial-and talked...
...thumb of the national guard, U.S.-educated (Universities of California. Maryland and Louisiana State) President Luis tried to wipe out the dictator label. He freed the press, treated plotters with unheard-of leniency, promised free elections in 1963. even proposed a constitutional amendment that would prevent him or any near relative from following him to the presidency...