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Popular government faces its ultimate test tomorrow. In a last, strenuous effort to "do something for the student, instead of just talking about it," the Student Council nine will take to the field, Larry Johnson '58, chief Councileer, announced yesterday...
...Prove It." Working 17-hour days, Investigator Bob Kennedy hopped back and forth across the country drawing together the findings. When the pieces of the Teamster puzzle began to fall into place, Kennedy returned to Washington, resumed a routine that was as strenuous as his field work. Rising at 6:45 a.m. at his McLean, Va. home, he went horseback riding with his wife Ethel (they have five children ranging from six months to five years) before going to the office, divided his day between hearings and office work, e.g., checking the 500 tips (one-third worthwhile) pouring in each...
...physics and agriculture, is studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford's New College), he plunged into the science of rowing and plowed through two coaches who disagreed with his innovations (one lasted only a day). Neither man could stomach Carnegie's new style or his strenuous training methods. But the crew could...
...last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
...made a positive contribution to peace and stability." His words were a little optimistic for an organization whose initials may sound like NATO, but unlike NATO is only a paper pact without an armed force of its own. More impressive than Dulles' words is the fact of his strenuous trip, meant to show that despite all of the demands of Europe and the Middle East, Asian defense rates high in the U.S. estimation. Just how high can be measured better in figures than in words: Asia has now become far and away the principal field for U.S. overseas...