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Echeverría, who served as Minister of the Interior throughout Diaz Ordaz's six-year term, promised a government that would be "neither to the right nor to the left, but upward and onward." Initially, he struck observers as a competent machine politician. Now they are not so sure. His tireless stumping, plus the fact that he is the father of eight, persuaded many Mexicans that Echeverría possesses what might be called "macharismo"-the requisite Latin American machismo mixed with political charisma. Dressed casually wherever he went, he dined with peasant families, spoke informally about national...
...alumni have elected five new members to six-year terms on the University's Board of Overseers- including a woman for the first time in Harvard's 334-year history...
...stock market, which knows a bad thing when it sees it, dropped like a stone last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average tumbled 29 points to close at 747, barely above January's six-year low of 744. Many stocks seemed "oversold," but few investors as yet had the nerve or confidence to buy. The market's decline partly reflected investors' anxiety about which of several turns the economy may be taking: toward outright recession, possibly combined with continued inflation; toward moderate growth and a gradual simmering down of price rises; or toward what is coming...
...have altered them all?particularly the kids. Jane is no longer content to play an ectomorphic Bardot. As a new mother, she resembles a full page in McCall's rather than a Playboy foldout. And the expatriate stance has vanished. "America is where I belong," she says, after a six-year sojourn in France. "This is where it has to happen." The girl who turned down the leading role in Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby is not about to let a plum go by her again. "I'll take on anything," she states, "even a musical." Peter, whose...
Five Overseers are elected each year to serve a six-year term. The Board of Overseers, which also includes the President and Treasurer of the University, meets seven times a year to pass on actions taken by the Corporation, Harvard's other governing board...