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...Britain, at least, there was no longer any point in warning citizens that they were selling their birthright of freedom for a mess of pottage. Bevan, the bulldog breed's new vet, could reply that Britons could eat tastier, tougher fare than pottage now that they had got new false teeth from the health service. As TIME's London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs cabled...
...Cali, defiant squads roamed the streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
...college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says he, "are in the Dark Ages. A general college education of at least two years must become an American birthright...
...back in the prosperous U.S. no amount of persuasion could induce enough U.S. citizens to claim their birthright. Despite posters and propaganda, Army enlistments were not going well. This week, however, the Army was assured of a trickle of replacements. Local boards, after a two months' draft holiday, prepared notices ordering up 25,000 19-29 year-olds for the Army's September quota...
...weighing 170 Ibs., he was "graduated" from the program. Most graduates fall back into obscurity, now & then emerge with a fugitive piece in the Ex-QK Resumé, the Quiz Kids alumni bulletin. But not Harve. His pieces were already appearing in the Times; he had claimed his birthright...