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...Observed the end of his six-year term as member of the Harvard Board of Over seers with a White House stag dinner for 42 fellow Harvard types, including President Nathan Pusey and Charles A. Coolidge, senior member of the Harvard Corporation. Following cocktails and dinner (dessert: glace académique), the guests made little speeches about the affinity of Harvardmen for the presidency (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and their host), and Kennedy got up to make a few remarks. As he spoke, there was a thud. There, on the floor of the candlelit...
President Kennedy, whose six-year term as an Overseer expires in June, did not attend today's meeting. But a number of former Overseers and Harvard men did attend the luncheon, including C. Douglas Dillon '23, Secretary of the Treasury; Francis Keppal '33, former dean of the School of Education and now commissioner of Education; McGeorge Bundy, former Dean of the Faculty and now special assistant to the President; and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.), a former overseer...
...meeting is being held in Washington so that the President can attend the last session of his six-year term as Overseer. He is not currently expected to attend any of the business sessions...
...militia that now numbers 13,000. The two operate in chilling tandem, handling everything from shakedowns of merchants to the assassination of suspected anti-Duvalierists. Their biggest day came in 1961 when they helped Duvalier rig a phony election that extended his rule to 1967. Legally, his first six-year term should end this May 15, and as the date approaches, restlessness stirs the country...
...night, gunfire rattled through the streets of Guatemala City. By 6 a.m., the army went on the radio with an announcement for Guatemala's 3,800,000 people. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 67, the cagy old soldier who had only a year to go before completing his elected six-year term of office, had been overthrown. In command of a military junta was Defense Minister Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, who was assuming control for the "good of the nation...