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...order to gain this support, the regime has had to shake hands with the devil, reality, and make some concessions to the army to keep military support. Yet an amazing start has been made. All large (over 1250 acres) farms have been made into cooperatives. The landless sharecroppers have been given freehold title to the soil they work. In fact, the far right tried to slow down the program by killing the American land reform experts sent by U.S. labor unions who were running the show. Moreover, the far right dislikes the presence of American military advisors who inhibit...
Following his introduction before the 1000-yd. freestyle in this afternoon's swim meet against Yale, Bobby Hackett should receive an ovation powerful enough to shake Blodgett pool right down to the foundation...
Jaruzelski, 57, had replaced the ineffectual Jozef Pinkowski three days earlier at a stormy meeting of the Communist Party's 140-member Central Committee. He thus became the only military man to head a Soviet-bloc government. More important, his accession marked the fourth major leadership shake-up since the eruption of labor unrest last summer and, in the opinion of many fretful Poles and foreigners alike, perhaps the last opportunity for the Warsaw authorities to restore order peacefully...
DIED. Bill Haley, 55, singer and guitarist who combined blues, country and pop influences into a pioneering rock-'n'-roll style on such hit records of the 1950s as Rock Around the Clock, Shake, Rattle and Roll and See You Later, Alligator; presumably of a heart attack; in Harlingen, Texas. Haley and his band, the Comets, continued to tour the U.S. and Europe during the '60s and early '70s, but he was overshadowed by later rock performers whom he had influenced, including Elvis Presley and the Beatles...
...sympathy, Thatcher replied sharply, "It's like a nurse looking after an ill patient. Which is the better nurse ?the one who smothers the patient with sympathy and says, 'Never mind, dear. Just lie back. I'll look after you.' Or the one who says, 'Now, come on. Shake out of it. I know you had an operation yesterday. It's time you put your feet to the ground and took a few steps.' Which do you think is the better nurse...