Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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S.A.O. killers went on to bomb unemployed Moslems queuing for relief at a social-security office and to shell a Moslem cafe with mortar fire. In Oran, where tough General Joseph Katz delayed an all-out offensive against the S.A.O. while awaiting additional French troops, Secret Army snipers fired on Moslems from the rooftops; European householders cheered...
...heavyweight championship of Rhodesia, lost it two years later (a low blow, claims Royboy) and quit the ring for good. After a two-year courtship in which he scared off all her other suitors with his fists, he finally married Elizabeth Henderson, a waitress in a Bulawayo cafe; today Liz Welensky bans politics from her home in Salisbury, banishes Sir Roy to the rose garden if he wants to talk shop with his political cronies...
...slight, amusing novel, The Dinner Party, merely proved slyly that the host (Carnejoux again) and most of his guests were intricately and sexually involved with one another. The present book proves even less, and is equally charming. Its effect is that of sitting in the sun at an outdoor cafe, slightly muzzy from wine, and imagining idly what is going on in the heads of the passersby...
...seven liberal arts and science students from West Berlin's Free University and other schools, it was clear that the Wall would cut off hundreds of classmates who lived in East Berlin but studied in the Western half of the city. Over beer and coffee in a cafe, they devised a daring scheme to outwit the Reds. Cutting classes and neglecting their books, the students blandly named themselves Das Reiseburo (the Travel Bureau) and swung into operation...
Climbing Blocks. The scene was a western suburb of Algiers called Bab-el-Oued (pronounced Bablouette by its 50,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Spanish, Italian and Jewish origin), a district of dark, dingy bars and cafes interspersed with modern shops, movie theaters and banks. Huge apartment blocks climb the hills above the shoe and cigarette factories that employ many Moslem workers. Long a hotbed of pied-noir extremism, Bab-el-Oued produces leaders like ex-Cab Driver Jesus Giner, who swaggers about the Cafe des Trois Horloges with a posse of armed hoodlums and boasts, "Here, I make...