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...popular couple cheerfully teased the press before fielding the more innocent questions of excited schoolchildren. Charles gallantly affirmed his fondness for barbecues, while Diana proudly announced that William boasts six teeth and, of course, a fondness for koala bears. Afterward they were whisked off to clamber up the sacred aboriginal monolith of Ayers Rock. For. a few moments, the couple savored the sunset together. But soon they had to return to earth-and a host of royal obligations...
...Palestine, Koestler returned to Europe, where he talked himself into a job with the giant Ullstein chain of newspapers. In 1931 he secretly joined the German Communist Party. "I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water," he later wrote. "I left it as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned." But it took several years to clamber...
...anti-Israeli reaction was worldwide. France became the first government to condemn Israel for its role in the massacre. In Italy, dock workers refused to load Israeli vessels, and airport workers announced a boycott of all flights between Israel and Italy, forcing passengers to clamber down from the planes and carry their own baggage to the terminal. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Francis Pym said that when Israel allowed the Christian militia to go into the camps, "you would expect horrifying results. So at best it was incompetent. But I suspect it was worse than that...
...four magic words, and hundreds carry homemade signs and drive had-painted vans which reiterate the them. From atop the vans and portable scaffolding, flushed faces call out hoarsely to all who pass below. "Show us your tits!" Most ignore the demands, but every so often a woman will clamber up onto a van and perform an awkward striptease to the cheers and jeers of the crowd below. One entrepreneur paid for her admission several times by collecting donations in the front of her scoop-neck T-shirt...
...last year is any kind of yardstick, the Faculty might as well not bother to clamber up the steps of University Hall to convene at all. Members of the Faculty Council, which simplifies and then forwards proposals to the full Faculty, are predicting that 1981-82 could be unusual for the very dearth of controversial issues that could confront the Faculty. Though the year is bound to contain some surprises--like the fairly sudden emergence of last year's technology transfer issue--the preliminary Faculty agenda looks about as empty as Ronald Reagan's White House in August...