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...insisted that "I'm no Marxist," and she named no Marxists to her ten-man Cabinet. The real danger lay in the fact that she had not the foggiest idea of how to run a government. She kept the man-sized Ministries of Defense and For eign Affairs for herself. To the key post of Finance Minister she named her favorite nephew, Felix Reginald Bandaranaike. 29, like herself a political novice...
...trips like that for money," he said later. "It was hairy." By week's end two high-altitude (30,000 ft.), turbine-powered Air Force choppers arrived from Reno, Nev., but by that time, seasonal turbulence and storm clouds began to form. As the weather closed in, a ten-man rescue party reached the remaining six members of the stranded company, and they all began the painful descent to the 10,200-ft. base, where the Air Force had dropped a twelve-day supply of food and equipment. In the storm, the rescued and their striving saviors waited, walled...
...Bernard Diamond has helped to change the administration of justice by winning acceptance in the courts of the principle of "diminished responsibility." This is a grey shade between M'Naghten's black and white, leaves judges more latitude. As one of the two psychiatrists on a new ten-man state commission on "problems of insanity relating to criminal offenses," Dr. Diamond said he will propose that diminished responsibility be put into law. Then, after sentencing, a special board, with plenty of psychiatric help, should decide where each convicted offender should be kept and what treatment he should...
...rejecting feelers from the ten-man syndicate that obtained a Boston franchise in the new American Football League, the Corporation, according to Whitlock, acted to keep the Harvard name free from association with professional athletics...
...head of the ten-man group added, "I have the impression the door is not yet closed." Sullivan will wait until the Corporation's decision next week, but he admitted that he is now looking to his second choice, Fenway Park, for a playing field...