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...this occasion I propose (1) to summarize the post-War theatrical activity of the Harvard community, and call attention to a number of particular features; (2) to proffer comments on the raison d'etre of theatre in the University; (3) to recount the steps that led to the decision to build a Theatre; and (4) to discuss some of the questions raised and answered by the presence of a physical plant for drama...
...point out that, far from charging corruption of ballot-stuffing, Dave Peterson immediately after losing by one vote moved that the election of Alec Dawson be made unanimous. I was sitting in front of Dave and heard him reject the suggestion made by Bruce MacGregor that he demand a recount...
Marcos Perez Jimenez of Venezuela long refused to believe the overwhelming evidence that he is among the world's least popular Presidents. He even held a dangerously free election in 1952 and .had to stage a secret, red-faced recount when returns ran ten to one against him. But the lesson finally sank in. Last week-with the only possible opposition candidate safely tucked away in jail-Perez Jimenez brazenly turned the scheduled Dec. 15 presidential election into a me-or-nothing plebiscite, a forced vote of confidence in the "New National Ideal," its leader and his rubber-stamp...
...palace and told the junta that they indeed wanted new elections, which they might well win. Ydigoras also made the pilgrimage to the junta, and with the U.S. air and military attachés sitting in at his request as "foreign observers," he stated his terms: an election recount that would void the Ortiz ballots...
...Knock at the Door proves a thoroughly engaging reading version of the first volume of Sean O'Casey's full-flavored autobiography. In an arrangement by Paul Shyre, six people seated in front of lecterns recount a late Victorian Dublin childhood that ends when a twelve-year-old boy has "learned poetry and . . . kissed a girl." The boy was not just any Dublin child-beyond the gifted writer he would some day be, he was threatened with blindness; and in a shabby and fiercely Protestant home was watching his father...