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Harvard starter George Lalich got in trouble in the first inning when he walked the first two batter. Holy Cross first baseman Phil O'Neil then hit a grounder to Bill Cobb at third. Cobb made the play at third but overthrew first baseman John Ignacio and Holy Cross had its first run. A single to centerfield made it 2-0 before Lalich pitched...
...dismissed pro-Westerner was Deputy Premier Zakaria Mohieddin, 49, a member of the original group of army officers that overthrew King Farouk; Mohieddin was named by Nasser as his successor when Nasser briefly re signed from office shortly after last June's Six-Day War. Also fired was Ali Sabry, 47, a former Vice President and far-leftist, who remains the boss of Nasser's Arab Socialist Union, the country's only legal political "party...
...possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after all, had ever heard of Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser before he led the coup that overthrew King Farouk...
Sorokin was no stranger to invective. He was raised in Russia before the Revolution, and by the age of 15 he was already familiar with Czarist dungeons. Under Kerensky's regime he was a Cabinet member. When the Bolsheviks overthrew Kerensky he was imprisoned once again. He was banished from Russia in 1922, but he never lost a strong emotional attachment to his fatherland...
Ever since it tossed out the man who styled himself its "redeemer," Ghana has been trying to redeem itself from his mistakes. Far from wanting to forget Kwame Nkrumah, the National Liberation Council that overthrew him in 1966 has endlessly reminded the 8,000,000 Ghanaians about his aberrant schemes. It even holds lectures on "What Went Wrong in Ghana?", at which the audience invariably utters cries of disbelief. The ruling junta of police and army officers, headed by Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah, has done a great deal more than lecture, however. It has not only rescued Ghana from...