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When Libyans woke on Monday morning last week, the radio had returned to the air and was blaring Sousa marches. Startled listeners were told that the King, who was at a Turkish spa being treated for poor circulation in his legs, had been overthrown and Parliament dissolved. The Kingdom of Libya, said Radio Triooli, was now the "Libyan Arab Republic" controlled by a Revolutionary Council of army officers. An around-the-clock curfew was imposed...
...other night I woke with a blissful feeling and discovered I had been dreaming that the whole goddam place had burned down," read the letter to President Kennedy in 1961. "I dozed off again, hoping for a headline saying no survivors." J.F.K.'s correspondent was John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. Ambassador to India, and "the whole place," naturally enough, was the State Department in Washington. The diaries of the acerbic Harvard economist, to be published in the October issue of American Heritage, contain some other fascinating passages, notably an account of Jackie Kennedy's state visit to India...
Yablonski himself required a doctor's care after an unknown assailant nearly disabled him with a karate chop on his neck while he was campaigning last month in Springfield, Ill., a Boyle stronghold. "I was knocked unconscious," says Yablonski. "When I woke up, my arms were paralyzed. My right hand and right foot are still numb...
...penchants picked up in the course of a broadcast career that began shortly after he got his college degree from Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in abnormal psychology. He was visiting New York City in 1937, as he tells it, when "some gal got me drunk and I woke up next morning as an NBC page...
...during a debate over dormitory visiting hours, the CRIMSON used the word "sex" in a headline, and the next day the nation woke up to news of a sex scandal at Harvard. Two years later, when Faye Levine '66 launched her clever campaign for Harvard Class Marshal, the papers couldn't write enough about this encroachment on the male domain. When Linda G. McVeigh '67 was elected the first female managing editor of the CRIMSON so much publicity attended the event that she stopped answering the telephone. Bored fellow CRIMSON editors invented quoted from her to give to reporters...