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Former track star Frank Yeomans will be a Boston break away threat in the three quarter line, and Lyle Michely will be in the scrum. Michael Stepanion, formerly of the San Francisco Olympic Rugby Club, will be a terror as prop in the scrum...
Kennedy, with his $20 billion Alliance for Progress, had come into office with glowing plans for building stable democracy in Latin America. Yet in the past three years, most U.S. attempts to prop up weak governments have fallen flat. And there are well-founded fears that the worst is not over. All week long, the State Department chewed its nails over military muttering in Colombia, troubled by a weak President and backlands violence; in Venezuela, rocked by increasing Castroite terrorism, and in Brazil, where perpetual chaos brought the country to the point of martial...
Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little...
...avert another deficit as bad as last year's $18.9 million, Curtis President Matthew J. Culligan has lopped 2,200 names from the payroll and pushed through other stringent economies. In an attempt to prop up failing circulation, the Post, having already eliminated half its summer issues, announced a plan to lower its newsstand price from 200 to 100 in almost all of the U.S., while raising the price to 250 in certain selected areas. But so far, the economy campaign has met with slim success. In the first six months of this year, Curtis reversed the trend...
...tempers acumen with whimsy. He insists on the color blue for almost everything, including his office telephones, carpets and draperies. He shuns Honolulu society, spends his free time at a 105,000-acre ranch where he raises and hunts game birds. One of his recent tasks has been to prop up the Dillingham image. Earnings have slumped because of a drop in construction contracts; Brother Ben Dillingham, 46, was defeated last fall in a race for the U.S. Senate; and Henry Kaiser, particularly, has been giving the Dillinghams some stiff new island competition. To such challenges Lowell Dillingham brings...