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...Katanga's secessionist regime, it was a trifle embarrassing. Here was its stout U.S. supporter. Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dodd, in town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President...
...often about so many things. A Yale man is brought up in the belief that a good follower is as important as a good leader. We can only stand and wonder at how well he plays his role. To each and every Yale man we say, "Stout little fellow. Carry...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24--Stymied by a stout Trumbull College defense and a field drenched in ankle-deep mud, Kirkland House dropped the Harvard-Yale intra-mural football championship, 6-0, here today...
Among the men behind Topic are John Powell, a British construction and real estate magnate who is given credit as the magazine's founder, a fur importer, a paper manufacturer, three kin of the Guinness clan (stout and beer), and Maurice Macmillan, 40-year-old son of Britain's Prime Minister. Its editor is Morley Richards, 54, a craggy and capable journalist with 28 years' experience on Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,313,063), 14 of them as news editor...
Ignoring the outraged canon, the prelates duly prayed for guidance and voted for Stopford, though Dean Matthews admitted there were "two or three abstentions." But most of them agreed with Collins' humiliating point. And the fact that he made it, observers noted, was a stout blow for the cause of disestablishment-the separation of Anglican Church and British state-whose most potent protagonist is Arthur Michael Ramsey, the new Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, July...