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...Left. Also slated to end its life as a military installation is Fort Jay on Governors Island just half a mile off the southern tip of Manhattan. A shrewd Dutch settler purchased the island in 1637 from Indians for-accord ing to legend-two axheads, a string of beads and a few nails. Parts of Fort Jay still bear the marks of British shells from the American Revolution. Since 1946, it has been headquarters for the U.S. First Army, which is to be consolidated with the Second Army at Fort George Meade, Maryland...
Comparing George Wallace to "a sky-rocket which will drop of its own accord," Durr expressed guarded optimism for the future progress of moderation in Alabama. Having "cut himself off from Washington," Wallace will face defeat on "bread-and-butter issues." But after Wallace, he said the "great silence" must still be faced...
...plain food to eat and a plain mat to sleep on. In the morning he rises early to be on his way, but when he looks for the ladder it is gone. "Please don't blame me," the woman says gently. "Remember, you came here of your own accord." He stares at her, incredulous. "Are you trying to tell me," he asks in rising alarm, "that I can't get out of here-that I'm trapped...
...total accord with the Soviet press denouncement of Khrushchev as "hairbrained," Adam B. Ulam, professor of Government, surmised that the Communist Central Committee acted to block another "mad improvisation" which Khrushchev was planning for the near future. Otherwise, Ulam said, the Soviets would have held their tempers a few more years until Khrushchev was forced by age to step down...
...even to dumping their ailing President, Abdullah Sallal, if necessary. But only the royalist princes, not Feisal alone, can dispose of Imam Badr. A possible compromise might lie in recognizing the Imam as a religious potentate without civil powers. But until the contending parties in Yemen reach agreement, the accord between Nasser and Feisal remains only a piece of paper and a lot of promises...