Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upper Volta, President Maurice Yaméogo filled his Cabinet with his cousins, lavished money on high living, mansions and travel abroad. When the money ran low, he cut the salaries of his 11,000 government employees-one-third of the nation's wage earners. The result was four days of rioting two months ago, which ended only when Lieut. Colonel Sangoule Lamizane deposed Yaméogo and rescinded the pay cuts. "France gives us money, and all we do is waste it," he said...
Died. Hugh Baillie, 75, longtime (1935-55) president of United Press, a hotly competitive wire-service man who started as a police reporter and sportswriter, later ran his 197 worldwide bureaus with a drill sergeant's bark; of heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims...
...spoke too soon. In 1736 she ran off to Venice with a dreamily beautiful but coldly ambisextrous adventurer, to whom she wrote 26 stormy love letters that appear for the first time in these volumes. Soon jilted, Lady Mary stayed on in Italy until, at 72, she announced: "I am dragging my ragged remnant of life to England." When she arrived, half of London turned out to inspect the legendary monster. Her vivacity was so great that nobody guessed she was dying of cancer. To Lady Mary herself, death was a matter of indifference. "I have lived long enough...
Crimson captain Tony Lynch, placing second in the 60-yard high hurdles behind Dave Hemery of B.U., was one of three runners to place for Harvard while bettering their previous beat times. Lynch ran a :07.2 semifinal heat, while Hemery, a sophomore from England, turned in a :07.1 for a meet record...
Sophomore Jim Baker, who earlier in the season set a University record in the two-mile run with a 9:11.1, ran a 9:05.5 Saturday for a third place, over ten seconds better than the fourth man. Georgetown's Eamon O'Reilly won the event in 8:57.8, followed by Barry Brown of Providence in 9:01.3. Harvard sophomore Joe Ryan did not place, but turned in a fine...