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...publicly asked Senator Mundt what the U.S. would do if the Soviet Union suddenly allowed 300,000 hungry Russians a day to flood across the Bering Strait into U.S. territory. Senator Mundt stiffly replied that, in the event of Communist refugees flooding into the U.S., "we would receive and absorb as many as possible, and if unable to handle the problem, call on the free world to assist us." Which is precisely the course that Hong Kong adopted...
...Djakarta diplomatic reception last year, Bung Karno (meaning Brother Karno) showed up in a beautifully tailored white uniform-barefoot. As he padded around the terraces and lawns, Sukarno explained that an electric storm was brewing and "I want to build up my energy. I absorb electric impulses from the ground." Some time ago, Bung was told by his dukun (medicine man and soothsayer) that his life would be in no danger so long as he avoided contact with steel. Sukarno thus decided against the kidney surgery advised by his medical specialists, instead relied for a cure on a team...
With its population already a bloated 3,250,000, Hong Kong can no longer absorb the steady flow of mainlanders who pour into the city daily. As Red China's hunger worsened, the flow became a flood...
Giving out the stamps that procure these delights inevitably represents an added cost to the retailer-a cost that somebody has to pay. The stamp companies argue that in most cases stamps bring in enough extra sales to allow the merchant to absorb the cost himself without raising his prices to customers. But the nation's biggest stamp distributor, New York's Sperry & Hutchinson...
...past ten years the number of students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has increased by 1200, of whom 450 were at the undergraduate level. He said he "wasn't aware of any violent dislocations this had produced," and he saw no reason why the College could not absorb another 500 students by 1972, provided a tenth House was added...