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Head counts by the library staff show almost as many students are using library now as used it during reading period last year, normally the busiest time of the year in Lamont. Last year the average evening attendance during the reading period was 502; this year, during the month of October, night time averaged...
Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
Headquarters City. New York is also the major port of entry into the U.S., and Idlewild-the busiest airport in the world -has become a kind of sub-city in itself. As large as all Manhattan from 42nd Street to the Battery, Idlewild has developed a range of consumer services that include banking, dentistry, photographic studios, and a $275,000 animal motel where bears can bed down for $2.50 a day, tigers for $5, bulls for $7 and wolves...
...gave the saxophone to jazz has been blowing a wicked wind for 40 years-and the melodic breeze shows no signs of slackening. Having survived several shifts in jazz taste-swing to bebop to cool-Hawkins remains the busiest tenorman around. As fans at the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival in Cincinnati could testify last week, his swaggering saxophone has lost none of its ingenuity...
Nine & Forty. The civilian council may find itself forced to act before long as more and more of the Trujillos' grisly secrets are put before the public. Attorney General Garcia Vasquez reports that two of the busiest murder factories were located in the capital's environs-"La Carenta" (The Forty), so-called because it was on 40th Street in Santo Domingo, and "Kilometer Nine," beside a highway nine kilometers east of the capital. Both were run by the S.I.M., and both were equipped with relatively unsophisticated but highly effective torture instruments. One device was an electric chair used...