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...suspended eleven articles of the Greek constitution?even though Constantine was asleep in bed when the coup took place. The army won support from the navy and air force, and the military set out to form a new government. In a brief and simple ceremony, the new rulers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Archbishop and Primate of Greece. To show his disapproval, King Constantine did not attend the ceremony, refused to take to the radio to address the people...
...Court action led to a Massachusetts state law which provided university police "with the same power to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense committed in or upon lands owned, used, or occupied" by the university. The Harvard University Police were the first in the state sworn in under the new statute...
Kennedy says he will loyally campaign for the ticket in 1968, and has promised to submit sworn affidavits, if need be, to keep his name off primary ballots in such states as New Hampshire, Nebraska and Oregon. His avid supporters may mount write-in campaigns for him anyway-although they have found little backing thus far in the ranks of regular Democrats. One outfit, the Citizens for Kennedy-Ful-bright, wrote 5,000 former delegates and alternates to Democratic conventions requesting support, got only 28 positive replies. Said an Oregonian: "The only time I would favor Senator Fulbright...
...believably and well by Welles, who frosts the screen with the chill of death when he stands shunned by his former companion, Prince Hal, become King Henry V. But the tragic moment of repudiation lacks substance and significance because the Prince and Falstaff have never been Shakespeare's "sworn brothers" in the early part of the film. In all their scenes, neither the two friends-nor the audience-have ever really laughed together...
...sees for the first time "a whole that is complex and yet without disorder. He knows that in the city he will be a dog or a child, and that he will not even begin to understand it, but that it is worth more than his god and his sworn faith and the German marshes." Droctulft deserts and dies fighting for dying Rome. "He was not a traitor," writes Borges. "He was a visionary...