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...Amidst all the opulence of reunion revelry, the casual observer may he puzzled by the question, "Where does the money all come from...
Skirting Tunis' subdued French quarter, Bourguiba's cavalcade proceeded amidst the thunder of drums and the shrilling of native pipes, through festooned streets and stopped before a small, dilapidated house. The adoring crowd surged forward, bore Bourguiba up three flights of stairs to the tiny apartment where his wife has lain bedridden during the last six months of his exile in France...
...cutting telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, and on three occasions boldly attacking police and army patrols. Hopping about the troubled area in a helicopter, Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle admitted: "The situation is serious." All week long in Paris, Premier Faure conferred worriedly amidst a din of newspaper alarm. For Morocco and Algeria he could offer only promises for the future, enforce stern measures for the present...
Sorokin, who initiated the College's department of Sociology in 1931, is content, however, even to glance at the idea of worldwide creative altruism. His early years, spent amidst the violence and destruction of revolutionary Russia where he once waited weeks in prison expecting a Bolshevik firing squad, impressed on him how necessary a formula for peace was to the world...
...also seems appropriate that the world did not learn of Einstein's death until seven hours after it had occurred, and that his hospitalization had received no publicity at all. He was not a man to suffer a long, tense illness and then to die dramatically amidst a roomful of relatives and friends. As he himself said, "I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or state, to my circle of friends, or even to my own family...