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...eyeful of the hardscrabble conditions under which so many of his countrymen live. So did scores of government officials and businessmen who accompanied him for three-week periods. Many Mexicans wondered why Echeverria even bothered. As the candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has only token opposition, he was a shoo-in; in July's elections, he won 86% of the vote. Nevertheless, Echeverria was determined that he and other Mexican leaders should get "reacquainted" with what life was like beyond the broad terraces and soaring towers of Mexico City...
...assistant to the City Manager had told NDAG member Arthur Fink that the draft board pays a token rent of one dollar per year to the City. When the NDAG offered to rent the present draft board room for that amount, Edward G. Seffilian, temporary city auditor, said that for the last twelve years rent for the room has been 75 dollars per month...
...wonderfully ludicrous. Anne protests that she can't possibly love the Duke because they have "only had 3 meetings in the last 4 years," but minutes later ends up forking over to him jewels given to her "by the king in behalf of the people of France" as a token of her love...
...same token, student grievances were taken up by groups outside the university. When Thieu's police renewed their attacks against student leaders at the end of August, parents, women's groups, lawyers, congressmen, religious leaders, teachers, and even university rectors publicly demanded an end to police brutality and repression. Early in September, a high Saigon court actually refused to try the students because "evidences of guilt are not clear enough." And when the detained students initiated a hunger strike "to the death," a group of mothers (two of them in their seventies) fasted in solidarity with students throughout the country...
Gordon is so enthusiastic about Love Story that he sent out 593 copies to the major donors of the Harvard College Fund "as a token of thanks for their generosity...