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...eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously. "You have...
...courses, grade themselves. Working with the faculty, they set the campus rules, vote community "taxes," and each year elect a paid student manager to run the college. Students even vote on the hiring & firing of professors. Last week, when Antioch chose a new president, an undergraduate was on the seven-man committee that did the choosing...
...seven-man, no-horse squad, reorganized last fall to revive the sport of kings at Harvard, was forced to arrange an all-away schedule, with opponents who were willing to supply nags on both sides of the table. Mainly as a result of the difficulty in establishing a temporary rapport during game-time with shy, suspicious horses loaned by their antagonists, and of their grounded condition at all other times, the Crimson riders dropped five of their six contests, winning only from Yale's second string...
...additions to the seven-man committee include: Gerald H. Fisher '49, Charles T. Hesse '50, Brantley Harris '49, and Morton D. Hull...
Eccles' head did not roll, although his neck was bruised. Magnanimously the President offered him the vice chairmanship of the seven-man board. After wrestling with his pride, Eccles took it. He could still get in plenty of licks at his enemies. While McCabe was learning the tortuous ins & outs of the job, Eccles, the old hand, would continue to be the most influential member of FRB. Independently wealthy and doggedly independent, 57-year-old Marriner Eccles would go on working at his ideas of "capitalistic democracy." A Washington career had been punctuated but by no means ended...