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Over 620 students abstained from dinner while non-fasters ate box-suppers in the dormitory living rooms. Debate about the manner in which the demonstration was organized continued until the last moment, with one faster withdrawing on reasons of principle at 6:15 p.m. Thursday...
...everyone else, this argument got nowhere either. Next, the Reds closed the village school and carted away the desks, benches and blackboards. Over a hundred young men were drafted into the guerrilla band. The Viet Cong billeted themselves on the villagers without payment. One housewife complained later that they "ate like water buffalo...
Crying Colonialism. Less obvious but more ominous is the growing isolation of President Abeid Karume. A moder ate, ineffectual leftist, the former merchant seaman proved no match for the wily, anti-Western machinations of Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," and Moscow-trained Vice President Kassim Hanga. Solidly supported by a cadre of younger Marxists, Babu and Hanga now control half of the Revolutionary Council, can usually work their will and twist any issue simply by crying "colonialism." They were able to replace Treasury Secretary Herbert Hawker, a Briton, with an East German Communist "adviser...
...Italy's important export market of Argentina, where Olivetti has long built typewriters and calculators, an attempt to ship in other machines was almost completely cut off last year by Argentine import restrictions. In neighboring Brazil, inflation far worse than Italy's ate up Olivetti's profits. Heavily dependent on South American sales, damaged by the Italian spiral and drained by its effort in the U.S., Olivetti had insufficient income to cover the costs of its vastly expanded plants, which turn out products noted for their quality and design...
...upstairs for dessert. In Hollywood last week, it was Jack Lemmon, writer at Universal Pictures, and his secretary, played by his handsome wife, Felicia Farr. Entering his office in a very low-cut dress, she picked up an envelope and licked it, then licked a stamp. Then she ate a pencil, slowly. Lemmon ate a pencil. Then they both started eating erasers, blotters, letter openers, a telephone, never taking their eyes off one another. "Let's go to lunch," he panted...