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...Curaçao. In Dr. Barbeau's records, the most detailed account of the Dancer is that of his supposed appearance at a party given by the Moreau family of L'Islet County on a Saturday night in 1917. The Moreaus were entertaining on their small farm outside Cap Saint-Ignace for their son Pierre, who had been lumbering in the U.S. for three years. After dinner the guests drank deep of rum, curaçao and whisky, and the fiddler struck up a lively tune. "Let's dance," a guest proposed. Everyone remembered that the village...
...hear that as a transit passenger on [a] Pan American flight ... I was searched in Ciudad Trujillo airport and my copy of TIME, July 30, taken away from me forcibly. I insisted on its return, calling the U.S. Embassy for help, and thus missed my plane to Curaçao. After the ruckus was over, the magazine was returned...
Last week one of Cheng's top agents returned to Formosa from a ao-day visit to guerrilla units along the Fukien coast. A lean-faced, hawk-eyed general officer, he has traveled in disguise to five headquarters directing 10,000 guerrillas. Gist of his report: the guerrillas' morale ranged from good to excellent; the condition of their weapons from fair to good. Their living conditions were difficult (23 oz. of rice a day); their help from the peasants was diminishing somewhat as Communist terrorism increased; their spy work in spotting Chinese Red army movements was excellent...
...took the Princeton and Yale series and tied Dartmouth which had won 30 straight games. Two years ago, the Crimson tied the Indians for the Pentagonal League championship, then lost in a playoff. This year, Harvard was the only sextet in the country to beat both BU and AO...
...dangerous precedent," warned Chinese Justice Mei Ju-ao. Even some Japanese were cautious in praise of the decision. "We are keenly alive to the honor of a supreme court of a democracy which does not rest content unless every doubtful point is eliminated," editorialized Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, "but what concerns us most is the issue of how to safeguard the world against war crimes...