Word: switch
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Hitler had his Goebbels and Castro his José Pardo Llada. If there was one sure thing about Pardo Llada, Castro's favorite and most poisonous radio commentator, it was that he was Cuba's No. 1 opportunist. At the last possible moment, he switched from Batista's to Castro's side, and the venom he once, in Batista's pay, directed against Castro was now directed in Castro's pay against Batista. Last week he announced another switch in loyalties. He turned up at a Mexico City press conference, a defector from Castro...
Though he lost the title role, Olivier gained by the switch. It is really the title role in name only: in his drama of the medieval King who idolized his chief counselor and then suffered him to be killed, Anouilh ignored too much that was vital in Becket-his great career as Chancellor, his shift from worldling to ascetic, his clashes, as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Henry. If Anouilh's Henry is not quite a full portrait either, it is for an Olivier a fat part-a touch too fat, for it hides Henry's bone structure...
Reason for the switch is the competition of California savings and loan associations, which pay depositors 4½% interest while commercial banks are prohibited by federal law from paying more than 3%. In the past, California banks traditionally gave themselves the benefit of the doubt on interest payments. They compounded interest only twice a year, paid on the minimum balance during each pay period, and reckoned by a 360-day year, which gave them free use of the money for five days annually. Along with the new interest arrangements, to be computed quarterly, the banks will give depositors an additional...
Experienced personnel should fill most of the starting line-up. Captain Al Martin, second baseman last season, will switch to first base, with junior Mike Drummey moving into Martin's old spot. Dave Morse, one of the hockey team's leading scorers and last season's top hitter is the shortstop, while sophomores Jim Combs and Corky Cronin are in contention for the third base position...
...report insists that, once a student commits himself to a three-year stay at Harvard, he is caught. This does not seem to be the case. A switch to a four-year program does not have to come within hours of Commencement, as the Committee seems to have assumed, and is not necessarily a major trauma. It should be noted, however, that a student who changes courses in mid-stream will still miss certain elements of a normal four-year residence...