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David L. Halberstam '55 comes to Cambridge to push his new best-seller, a study of the relevance of mammary glands to the development of American conservative thought, entitled The Breast and the Rightist...
Uphill Battle. Over the past five years, Hakozaki, who is righthanded himself, has become Japan's leading spokesman for lefty liberation. In 1968 he wrote a bestselling attack on the old prejudices called Warnings Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
Despite his notoriety, loannidis is a man few Greeks have actually seen. "Well, he is about 5 ft. 9 in. or 10 in. He is thin, looks about 52, and has graying hair," goes one grudging description. An austere, hard-lining rightist, who lives alone, loannidis is described by one Washington military official as "a real tough cookie." Other acquaintances emphasize his reputation for being wholly incorruptible...
...while tanks rolled unopposed into the main squares of Athens. By the time the Greek people learned that their country had undergone its second coup d' état in six and a half years, the army had already sworn in a new president, Lieut. General Phaedon Ghizikis, a rightist and friend of deposed King Constantine...
...already accused the Chiefs of Staff of trying to delay his plan for crossing the canal, and may be subject to courtmartial proceedings during election time. He has become extremely popular in Israel; posters and painted signs refer to him as "Arik Sharon, King of the Jews." An avowed rightist, Sharon stands with Begin on issues of security and has even on occassion referred to himself as "Commander of Israeli Forces in Africa." His case can be likened to the obvious American parallel, that of General MacArthur, who was fired by Truman for insubordination and returned home to a hero...