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...finest performances seen at Harvard in recent years, the Crimson squash team defeated Yale's National Champions, 6 to 3, Saturday afternon in Hemenway Gymnasium. Led by a decisive opening victory by captain Charlie Hamm, the Crimson controlled the match from the very beginning, as the varsity regained the Ivy crown...
Preceded by an eager army of 100 Western reporters.* Macmillan was caught up from the moment of his arrival in a Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev...
Marks & Muddles. If Russia had any genuine interest in a compromise settlement, the Western allies had opened up one line of approach. In their recent notes to Moscow, the U.S., Britain and France had all indicated their willingness to have "advisers" from both East and West Germany present at a Big-Four conference. This was clearly a concession to Russia's insistence that reunification of Germany must be negotiated directly between the West German government and East Germany's Communist bosses. And last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department...
Even President Siles sighs: "But for your recession, Bolivia would be going through the happiest period of its history." Then he looks around at his office's portraits of two recent Presidents, one a despairing suicide and one hanged by a mob, and adds morosely: "The man sitting here always feels the rope around his neck...
...only American Negro to be cast in a romantic movie role opposite a white actress (Joan Fontaine in Island in the Sun). He has not only crossed some color lines, but a great many other lines as well. His appeal is remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first time, he broke attendance records everywhere he sang. "I can play Belafonte," says Manhattan Disk Jockey William B. Williams, "and not lose any part...