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...hope that amidst this spring's welter of fanaticism moderates will keep in sight the necessary ideal of free speech...
John Keafs was returned to the Houghton Library yesterday, apparently safe and sound, amidst a rising clamor of accusations and recriminations over his removal on Tuesday...
...when the first gunships and Medevac helicopters arrived, the entire base was in flames. "You couldn't see because of the smoke," said Lieut. Mat Noonan, a Medevac pilot. "We had to circle three times just to see where the pad was." Noonan finally set down amidst "the worst carnage I have ever seen at an American installation. There were rows and rows of bodies-some burned to charcoal, others completely disemboweled. There were nine body bags full of bits and pieces of flesh...
...Vegas is really an interesting place to grow up," Pete said. "The people who live there don't frequent the pleasure palaces. They're trying to preserve a sense of community amidst everything, and it's difficult when there is a slot-machine in every grocery store...
WITH its modern marble façade and its sleek steel-and-glass lines, the Palace of Congresses seems out of place amidst the ponderous 15th century walls and onion-shaped domes of the Kremlin. In the palace's vast, streamlined auditorium Russia's rulers next week will stage one of the regime's most important political extravaganzas in some time?the 24th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. The Congress was to have been held in early 1970. It was delayed for a full year, indicating that the eleven-man Politburo, which constitutes Russia's collective leadership, has been locked...