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...fellow sailor at Vineyard Haven was Whitney Griswold. Becoming good friends, the Old Grad and the President ribbed each other unmercifully. "What are you doing to my alma mater?" Brewster would roar, joshing Griswold about student riots at New Haven, losing football teams or his presidential speeches. When the rumor spread that Brewster was under consideration as next dean of the Harvard Law School, Griswold in 1960 offered Brewster Yale's provost job. "The idea came to me as a surprise," says Brewster, but he promptly accepted...
Formula As Before. As rumor of the impending coup spread, U.S. Ambassador Charles R. Burrows did his best to talk the brass out of it. Last week the Pentagon even rushed in Major General Theodore F. Bogart, of the U.S. Army Forces Southern Command, for secret talks to be sure everyone got the message. But all threats and pleas were useless. Early one morning last week, four air force fighters swooped low over the tile-roofed capital of Tegucigalpa, as troops cut off access to the presidential palace. Villeda Morales' loyal civil guardsmen put up a vain resistance...
...Dalat, 140 miles northeast of Saigon, the government faced a Buddhist problem of a different nature: what to do about an aged nun who, by reputation at least, has been flitting about the countryside working miracles. Known simply as "the Saint," she first appeared, according to rumor, on a mountain-top and began turning water from a dirty stream into miraculously clean holy water. A father reported that she cured his daughter's acne; two little boys who were mutes were taken to her, have since started uttering sounds. As word of her feats spread, Buddhist faithful...
...copies in 24 hours, an alltime record for an official document. Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition had somewhat less reason to rejoice. The report, based on a three-month investigation of the Profumo affair by Britain's second-ranking judge, dismissed most major charges and every squalid rumor of government culpability in the case. In 60,000 lucid words, Denning rejected persistent reports that other Tory ministers had been involved in bizarre sexual exploits, left no grounds for belief that John Pro-fumo's affair with Christine Keeler had resulted in any leakage of Allied secrets...
...Aura of Good Taste." For months, the rumor has persisted Washington that Douglas chatted with President Kennedy last spring, hinted that he might resign from the Supreme Court Douglas denies this-and there seems little likelihood that he would conceivably step down before Oct. 16, his 65th birthday, when he will be eligible to retire at his full salary of $35,000 a year for life...