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Harvard's "dean of deans" Delmar Leighton, 66, is probably remembered more warmly by more Harvardmen than anyone else in the Yard. Alumnus ('19) Leighton spent 40 years giving errants a second chance and trying to hold Harvard to human scale. The son of a truck farmer, he "backed into deaning" after flying for the Marines in World War I, trying the textile business and teaching economics. As Harvard's first dean of freshmen in 1931, Leighton warmed up cold Cambridge by housing freshmen together for mutual aid. As dean of the college in 1952, he revitalized...
...most efficient embassy I ever had." He had a deputy who "used to drive the Communists crazy by talking Eskimo over the telephone on a tapped line," a first secretary who doubled as economist and "still had time to draft Voice of America broadcasts," an officer "who ran a truck to Nuremberg every two weeks for supplies," one consul, one vice-consul, one code clerk, three secretaries, and a military establishment consisting of "an Air Force colonel and an Army colonel who competed unhappily for the assistance of one sergeant...
...rubber bath shoes, Kong Le perches on a stool morosely studying a map beneath the light of a swaying hurricane lamp. The picture is discouraging: the Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince, rub an old battle scar on his forehead and say: "My head hurts." Then he usually takes some pills, and a bodyguard treats his shoulder with...
Last October he sent a truck to Monte Alto, loaded it up with a cargo of Izildinha medals, books, banners and photos that the town had printed. Monte Alto's town fathers let him take them away-but not Izildinha. Legally and in writing, Constantino had donated her to Monte Alto. "The body belongs to us," said a former mayor of Monte Alto. "Even if she is not a saint, she is still something for the people to cling to." Recently, 5,000 citizens turned out in a mass demonstration against Constantino. "Respect Our Faith: Don't Steal...
...their banking along with the family shopping, the San Antonio Savings Association has opened nine branches inside local Handy-Andy supermarkets, right among the soap and spinach. The Bank of Pasadena has a limousine service that carries banking directly to customers who cannot get to the bank; a small truck with a two-way radio wheels around town doing business for The Endicott National Bank of Endicott, N.Y. Chicago's Home Federal Savings and Loan can provide instant mortgage appraisals for telephone callers by dispatching a bank officer to their homes in a radio-equipped car that regularly prowls...