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...elder statesmen must rally the young Crimson team which has played both brilliantly--in a 2-0 victory over Dartmouth--and pathetically--in a 3-1 drubbing at fifth-ranked UMass earlier in the season...
Although predominately a young team, the Crimson got its best efforts yesterday from two elder statesmen--senior Co-Captains Anne Kelly and Alicia Clifton...
...documents a year. But its football-field-size printing plant will be taxed by the nonstop flow of oratory. To fit in all the speechmaking anticipated in the final week of the anniversary commemoration, U.N. officials are searching for a diplomatic way to hold the pronouncements of visiting statesmen to 15 minutes apiece. Their solution: dignitaries will be warned that if their eloquence runs long, "night meetings will be required with all the ensuing consequences." Dire consequences indeed: cocktail parties delayed and curtain times missed...
...most put-upon worker of all at the anniversary bash may be the U.N.'s chief of protocol, Aly Teymour. Most of his time is spent not hobnobbing at elegant dinners but stuck in traffic on the way to Kennedy Airport to welcome visiting statesmen who jet in at all hours of the day and night. Last week the tall, cultivated Egyptian greeted 120 foreign ministers, but that was merely a warm-up. Still to come are 92 heads of state. Or is it 93? The total changes daily...
Kenneth Kaunda, 61, who has been President of Zambia since his country's independence in 1964, is one of black Africa's elder statesmen. Though not a Marxist, he is a firmly committed nationalist who supported the independence struggles in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Kaunda is, however, also a devout Christian who believes that "when the good Lord said 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' he didn't mention color." He has met with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk...