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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returned to Portland to court a hearty, good-looking social worker named Matilda Baricevich. "Mat" knew that marriage to Mike meant frozen bliss in the tundra. "I rather looked forward to it," she says, "even though I had the usual idea of eternal snow and sled dogs cuddling up to you in a cabin for warmth." Mike went on to Fairbanks in the fall of 1947, took his bar exams. Before the year was out, he was appointed city attorney and had settled down with Mat in a four-bedroom frame house...
Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
Coach Hal Ulen's swimming team had its usual frustrating season as it won 9 meets, had an unexpected loss at the hands of Dartmouth, and then had to swim against Yale. It did better than expected in losing only 58 to 28, but for the ninth straight year, the Crimson swimmers found themselves in second place in the East. Ulen did turn out three particularly fine swimmers in Dick Seaton, John Hammond, and Jim Stanley, who will be the nucleus for next year's second place team...
...most successful freshman teams were, as usual, the Yardling sextet with a 16 and 6 record and a 6-2 win over Yale, and the '61 squash team which had a 10 and 1 slate and an easy win over the Blue...
...spirits, he would slap Josephine on the shoulders while she begged, "Do stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...