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Some 250 of the commonwealth's solidest citizens--industrialists, bankers, and a smattering of policicians and professors--gathered in the cavernous main hall of the Harvard Club of Boston to hear speeches by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, president Pusey, and Eugene R. Black chairman of the Library's board of trustees...
...could be the Ivies' premier middle-distance man. Walt Hewlett and John Ogden in the distance runs, and Aggrey Awori in just about everything. The addition of a freshman quartet that snapped the University mile-relay record, and Yardling miler Jim Smith could make the team one of the solidest ever...
...President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a vigorous and ambitious architect. Peru's economy, left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand at a fat $106 million, old industries like copper mining are expanding, and new industries like fish-meal fertilizer are running strong...
...energy, guts, brains and increasingly mature judgment that the bar generally rates him a good Attorney General, and politicians of both parties rank him among the strongest and ablest members of the Kennedy Cabinet. Barely a year in office, the kid brother is one of the President's solidest assets...
Velvet Swindle. The solidest and most serious entries in Crime and Criminals-juvenile delinquency, penology, prostitution, war crimes-exhibit a drab sociologist look and a stylistic prison pallor. But as a refresher course in big-name crime, the book often proves happily terse where there no longer can be much tension, yielding forgotten details into the bargain. Crippen, perhaps England's best-known wife murderer, was born in Michigan; Captain Kidd, most famous of pirates, probably was not a pirate at all but a legitimate privateer who got a bum rap from a British court. While the never-caught...