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Sprinter Gerry Ashworth, who beat Crimson ace Aggrey Awori twice during the winter, is in Brazil for the Pan-American Games. Middle-distance man Tom Holzel was involved in an automobile accident last week and apparently will be unable...
Parker, 28, rowed for three years on the University of Pennsylvania varsity. He took up sculling after graduating in 1957 and won the national single sculls championship and a gold medal in the Pan-American Games in 1959. He repeated as national champion in 1960 and went on to represent the United States in the Rome Olympics...
...dispute first arose last spring when the NCAA created its Federation to challenge the AAU's control of amateur track. At stake is the power to control the selection of candidates for the Olympic and Pan-American games. The AAU has always set the qualifications for participation in the tryouts for both events...
F.D.R. recalled the Marines from Nicaragua and Haiti, toured Latin America, sipped toasts with Latin America's chiefs of state (many of them dictators who had seized office through military coups), preached the new doctrine of Pan-American amity. At the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo in 1933. the U.S. agreed to a resolution prohibiting the nations of the hemisphere from interfe~ing in each other's "internal or external concerns." In later years, the Latins drafted and the U.S. accepted even broader bans on intervention. The current version of the ban. adopted in 1948, declares: "No state...
...JORNAL of Rio de Janeiro: Brazil will comply with her commitments to defend Pan-American solidarity and the Monroe Doctrine...