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...would pay for it? Bonn's city fathers pointed out that they would not need to make the improvements if Bonn were not the capital, and federal budgeteers objected that such a commitment by the federal government would betray the long insistence that Germany must one day be reunited...
...year ago Havana had six. Inevitably, the dictatorship is losing some popular support. At the peak, Castro had 90% of Cuba's people with him; the figure today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear swept Havana last week when a rumor got around that the government was planning to "nationalize" children along Communist lines...
...neighbors of the Globe Theatre. And the parents of Diana Echlin should be gratified that although her Helen is beautiful she is not going to destroy the United Nations with personal wantonness. Most of the actors in this depraved drama look like upright citizens who are not going to betray Troy, Greece or the United States...
Perhaps this path would betray France, for perhaps France pride would be so hurt that the compromise would be unacceptable. But it seems possible that the UN could be accepted, under pressure, as a gesture to convince others of the good faith which de Gaulle has already personally guaranteed. It need never be suggested that France would not bargain in good faith: rather, acceptance of the UN could become a supreme French gesture of willingness to do anything to convince the Algerians of honest intentions...
...bill was introduced into Parliament (but mercifully unpassed) that provided: "All women of whatever rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wood (rouge), iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes and bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors...