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When the priest asked parishioners to "adopt" the graves of Americans in the nearby U.S. Military Cemetery at Margraten, The Netherlands, Harry Van Der Tuyn thought it might be a small but altogether fitting means of repaying the liberators of his country. At first his soldier was unknown to Van Der Tuyn, except for the name Pfc. Edward John Magee on the plain white marker...
...result of such systematic repression of anti-Peronistas is that political conversations-except in private and out of earshot of servants or school-indoctrinated children-are unknown in the capital. In the eighth year of Perón, the atmosphere of constraint and fear that prevails in Buenos Aires is probably unequalled this side of the Iron Curtain...
Last week, playing in the $10,000 San Diego Open, Mangrum finally showed the strain of his recent winning spree. After a fine opening-round 68, he slipped to a fourth-place finish ($840). (The winner, just as Mangrum predicted: up & coming Tommy Bolt, 34, unknown two years ago.) But Mangrum, who once said of Ben Hogan, "the little man is the only one in golf I've ever feared." is still the man to beat in any tournament he enters...
...letter to the Christian Science Monitor, Roger Erust '03 answered an accusation by Senator Charles Tobey (R.N.H.) that the Roxbury Latin Trustees considered Conant an "unknown...
...James B. Conant was a quiet, forty-year-old professor of Chemistry who had earned an enviable reputation in his field for work with chlorophyll, had gained a slight notoriety among undergraduates for giving a tough course in Organic Chemistry, and was totally unknown to the general public and the academic world. On the following day he was elected president of Harvard University thereby automatically becoming the leading spokesman for American education...