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Although there is no law against the screening of USIA films in this country, by tradition the agency's efforts are shown only with special Congressional approval. Rep. Torbert H. Macdonald '40 (D-Mass.) introduced the bill obtaining permission for Wednesday's showing. Another bill, presently pending in Congress, would permit the Kennedy documentary to be shown in commercial theatres throughout the nation...
Last Thursday the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution, sponsored by one of Kennedy's former roommates, Rep. Torbert H. Macdonald '40 (D-Mass.), to allow the Class to see the film during reunion week...
...second team included Bowditch in the goal; Jim Griswold of Penn and Bill Torbert of Yale at fullbacks; Knapp, Robin Ross of Princeton, and Al Converse of Yale at halfbacks; and Bruce Cohen of Cornell, Bill Hooks of Brown, Teq Iasu of Dartmouth, Njoku and Akuffe at forwards...
Kennedy tried to make up for his illness by determination. In his sophomore year he was sent to Stillman Infirmary diet was too skimpy, he had his roommate Torbert McDonald (now a Congressman) smuggle in steak and frappes. Then Kennedy sneaked out of the infirmary for the time trials. But he failed to qualify...
...mounted police swinging long batons; before the disturbance was quelled, some 500 people were arrested. In Hargeisa, the onetime capital of British Somaliland, crowds stoned British homes and cars, attacked the British consulate. Presumably because of Britain's close ties to the U.S., newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Horace Torbert was stoned out of the town of Galcaio, his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself, a Somali tribesman speared a district commissioner, Lieut. Colonel John Balfour, and one mob hauled down the Union Jack...