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...went back to Ceylon and began competing for higher stakes. Once in politics. he discarded his Western dress. Though brought up an Anglican, he turned Buddhist. Today, at 57, Bandaranaike lives a fairly Spartan life with his wife and three children. Stooped, gaunt and bespectacled, he has an uncanny understanding of his fellow Ceylonese. And his talent for expediency has never left him. Those who do not admire him are fond of reciting a little jingle...
Brawling his way to power in 1935, Zachariades (who toughened himself by bathing in freezing water after the ancient Spartan custom) knifed a policeman to death in an Athens street fight. Next year Greek Dictator John Metaxas locked him away in a medieval prison on the island of Corfu. In prison, learning that Stalin was still honoring his pact with Hitler, Zachariades ordered Greek Communists to cease resisting the 1940 Italian invasion. When Greece fell to the Axis, the Germans shipped Zachariades from Corfu to Dachau, where the U.S. Army found him in 1945 and flew him home to Greece...
...which holds my attention." His own childhood was unusually happy. He knew how to read at two, was confident that his parents loved him, learned his first smatterings of science from an awkward young teacher named H. G. Wells.Though he had trouble with Greek, he breezed into spartan Westminster School, and in spite of the fact that there was not a single bath in the place ("It was enough that it was built by Christopher Wren"), he enjoyed himself thoroughly. He went on to Cambridge and to the fulfillment of his first literary ambition: the editorship of the undergraduate Granta...
...clock: In spite of rumors to the contrary, it is not easy to take four twelve o'clock courses. For those Spartan enough to get up at nine o'clock, the Social Relations department has an offering. The Ethnology of Native North America, Soc. Re1. 124, concerns, evidently, the people of America and Canada. Over in Harvard Hall 5 today's mind comes to grips with the New Testament, and Professor Buttrick with Dewey, Fromm, Eliot, and Sartre. The course is Humanities...
Although a talent for football can earn a husky young man a life of comparative ease at most universities, the spartan life at College Station still draws its fair share of athletes. Last week the best Aggie team in years traveled to Houston to take on Rice Institute, and scored three times in the final three minutes and 18 seconds of the game, to whip the fired-up Owls, 20 to 12. It took the Aggies a long while to get started, but once they clicked they did everything right...