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...auspicious beginning for coach Larry Coolidge, Crimson crews won all except the first freshman race in the five-event regatta. By far the closest and most exciting race of the afternoon was the J.V. victory, won by a scant four feet...
...Party outside the Iron Curtain, and he promised Nikita Khrushchev that Indonesian Reds would deliver 8,000,000 ballots if elections "were held tomorrow" (in the 1957 regional election the Reds became Indonesia's top party with 6,940,000 votes). All this had been done in a scant ten years, for Communist prestige in Indonesia was at zero after the Reds tried to pull a coup in 1948, which was easily crushed and its leaders executed. But Aidit had problems too. He lingered in. Moscow long after the Congress was over, presumably to explain his difficulties...
Like most of the Chancellor's defenses of his title, this one was calculated to have other effects too. It gave the Christian Democrats, who can now count only a scant six-vote majority in the July electoral-college balloting, a presidential nominee able and popular enough to match the opposition Social Democrats' popular and widely known candidate, Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid. It also appeased Ruhr industrialists, who, because industrial production tumbled 8% in January-the sharpest drop in seven years-and because 14 million tons of unsold coal are piled up around Rhineland pits, long...
Musical archivists may show scant interest in the warbling of Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond, but a player-piano version of Rhapsody in Blue, plunked out by Gershwin himself in 1937, is of historical interest...
...basic fault was a lack of careful groundwork. During the seven years of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's iron regime, and during the two years of Rebel Fidel Castro's mountain-locked resistance, Cuba got too little attention from the daily press. Scant word of Batista atrocities-of the Cubans who died at the hands of his army and his police-filtered past his porous censorship. The strength of the Castro position, after the revolt lapsed into a tropical stalemate, was misjudged...