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...Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood: "It's like white horses." Even Khrushchev took time out from his attacks...
...associates, he remained respectfully mum in their presence. Most of the time he was too busy to talk. As the delegation was feted and followed for twelve days through Britain's top aircraft plants, at banquets, soccer matches, theatrical performances and historic monuments in England, Scotland and the Channel Islands, Sergei shot enough 16-mm. cinefilm to reach from Krasnovodsk to Komsomolsk...
...Scoffer thinks of exams and papers as jousts between himself and the grader. He tries to please the grader, to "psych him out," to catch his fancy with a gimmick. A typical Scofer ploy is to make a highly improbable comparison: "What Charles Dickens has in common with Channel...
...feedom movement instead of participating in a "gimmick," which only supplies SNCC with 50 cents for each fasting girl. But the fast should not be regarded as an alternative to an individual donation; anyone who wishes can give to SNCC on his own. Rather the fast provides a convenient channel by which many students--some of whom might not have otherwise given--can make a small personal sacrifice in order to aid the civil rights cause. Furthermore, the fast itself should be a significant gesture for the students involved and an encouragement to the workers in the South...
Wisest Counsel. Challenged in the courts ever since (and outlawed in California in 1950), the plan was recently enjoined by Virginia's highest state court on the ground of illegal "channel ing" - meaning that most brotherhood injury cases go to brotherhood lawyers. Appealing to the Supreme Court, the trainmen argued that the Virginia injunction clearly denies rights guaranteed by the First and 14th Amendments...