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...agreed not to press for immediate payments on the $670 mil lion worth of Dutch properties expropriated by Sukarno six years ago, signed a technical-aid agreement with Indonesia, leaving tedious business details for later discussion. Beamed Subandrio: "We have no deep political differences any more." Having been twice bitten by Sukarno, both in Indonesia and New Guinea, the Dutch will demand tight guarantees in their dealings with him. Though in effect they are helping the dictator over the economic problems resulting from his Malaysian "confrontation," the Dutch insist that they do not intend to bolster Indonesia's harassment...
Pursuit of Angst. What happens is a howling shame. Roger is defeated in conversation by an undergraduate "Jewish jackanapes" who enrages him by professing identical opinions. He tests his conviction that "these Yank college girls were at it all the time," and is bitten severely in his fat neck. He bloats with rage after a faculty party when he guessed the word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged...
Died. Gerald de Bary, 37, Swiss-born director (since 1955) of the Salt Lake City zoo; 30 hours after being bitten by an African puff adder, one of the world's deadliest snakes; in Salt Lake City. Suffering from a bad case of flu, Bary was about to clean the adder's cage when he felt dizzy, thrust an arm through the open door, attempting to steady himself-whereupon the adder struck. Said De Bary, shortly before he died: "Don't blame the snake. He was only protecting himself...
...Lifesaver sales shot up in the square this week. Haggard faces and bitten nails abounded. Informed sources reported that Cabot Hall had taken to "feminine pipes...
Trotsky was enchanted by the Mexican landscape. He was fascinated by cacti and took long hikes to search for rare specimens. The hard-bitten revolutionary also kept rabbits and chickens at his home in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, and spent hours feeding them according to the latest scientific methods...