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...home team's scoring. Aside from his second to Pringle, Kaany churned to first in the 160 yard individual medley, while Holt listed a win in the 220 freestyle and a third in the 440. For the third straight year, Springfield's Pritchard Poirer outshone Harvard's Rio Johnson in the dive. Former Yardling aoe Jerry Lewy trailed Johnson, who had placed second only to all-time Crimson great Frank Gorman in the Yale meet last year...
...Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf set his foot down, insisted that Astrid marry some true blueblood. In fast succession. Astrid turned her nose up at a series of princelings who could not distinguish between the stern and the spinnaker. Meanwhile, frustrated Suitor...
...President's first stop of the week was carefully calculated to woo a political minority with whom Dick Nixon so far strikes few responsive chords: the big Mexican-American communities of Texas and California. At Del Rio, Texas, the President crossed the Rio Grande to pay a farewell call on his good friend, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos. Despite a steady drizzle, thousands jammed the plaza of Ciudad Acuña to hear Eisenhower proclaim the indestructible friendship of the two neighbors...
...newspapers, radio and TV commentators beat the drums, the country went on a virtual war footing. The government recalled troops to barracks, ordered militiamen to assembly points, and deployed thousands of men along the fortified beaches on the south coast between the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Camagüey. Using the "threat to Cuba" as a whiplash to complete the country's Communization, Castro's government warned workers to get into the militia or be classified as "traitors or cowards...
...nearly a year, disillusioned rebels have been drifting back to the hills. They are still unorganized, have no unified chain of command. But last week 500 to 800 men were still in the Escambray, operating in loose guerrilla fashion. And there are other, smaller groups in Pinar del Rio, in Matanzas and in Las Villas provinces...