Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pusey's citation for Marjolin called the former French and European economic officer a "courageous patriot, thoughtful economist undeterred by competing national interests, he holds fast to the vision of a strong European community." Marolin, former secretary general of the Organization for European Economic Corporation, is expected to speak at the Alumni Exercises this afternoon...
...patriot. I love my country, its flag, and all they stand for. It is in part for these reasons that I work to see my country release its degrading death grip on Viet Nam. I cannot stand by and see America being lured into supporting a war effort antithetical to the kind of moral principles upon which the country was founded...
Died. Direck Jayanama, 62, Thai patriot, Deputy Premier in 1946-47 and seven-time Cabinet minister, who during his service as Foreign Minister in World War II managed with great sangfroid to butter up Thailand's Japanese masters while at the same time holding a top post in the resistance movement against Japan, early in 1945 led a secret mission to Ceylon to confer with the Allied command about organizing a Free Thai uprising, and was later awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom; of stomach cancer; in Bangkok...
Divorced. By Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Iris Paine Russell, 40, wealthy descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; on grounds of "incompatibility of character"; after 18 weeks of marriage (which took place last October, just 24 days after he was divorced by her second cousin, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill); in Juarez, Mexico...
...football ability is genuinely All-American. His size and proneness to injury are against him, but there are already a number of small fragile flankers in the pros. Further, Mike Holovak is second only to B.C. hockey coach Snooks Kelley in his reliance on local products (it was the Patriots who also drafted Davis). If Leo can do anything for the team--and Boston has a notoriously weak receiving corps--the bonus of attracting Harvard followers to Patriot games will tip the scales in his favor. Making the team won't be easy, but after three months of uncertainty...