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West Frankfort was not listening to the sound of argument. On Christmas Eve, 1951, it devoted itself to the dead, who waited on tarpaulin sheets on the floor of the junior high-school gymnasium, to be recognized and bidden farewell...
Early last week shy, bespectacled Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Minister of Defense, and dumpy Lieut. Colonel Marco Pérez Jiménez, Chief of Staff, called on President Gallegos. Their message was simple: do as the army has bidden or else. Deadline: tomorrow. Next day the entire cabinet resigned, but the day dragged on without a word of a new cabinet...
Caesar's Fault. Shaw seems just to be getting up full steam on Darwinism when he jumps the track and chugs off on a discussion of the English language. "An intelligent child who is bidden to spell debt, and very properly spells it det, is caned for not spelling it with a b because Julius Caesar spelt the Latin word for it with...
During these days, the game was less exciting, though often more eventful, than it is today. The forward pass was strictly for bidden but a number of delicate little methods for gaining ground were looked upon with tolerance...
...states," stayed in. Such nonmember neutrals as Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal, such former Axis satellites as Bulgaria and Rumania can come in only when the Security Council recommends their admission and the General Assembly approves. Members may be suspended but not expelled. Withdrawal is neither provided for nor for bidden (any member could resign from the League of Nations...