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...lost more men than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel's First Lady, a homebody at last in her Tel Aviv semidetached, the accomplish ments and the anecdotes cannot cloak the final...
...became quite lucid, occasionally chatting with his family and even discussing with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
...fiddle with 1-1-2 when it raises so many hackles and is so unlikely to pass the Faculty? Well, after some thinking, it becomes clear that what really attracts University Hall to 1-1-2 is its potential for social engineering. Finally Harvard can throw off its burdensome cloak of tradition and become Walden...
...overt," Smithies--who says he was most recently consulted by the agency, regarding a report on the future of the Vietnamese economy, last year--explains now. "For about ten years I'd go down there and review their papers on national economic matters: I've never been the cloak-and-dagger type. But naturally they made a big fuss about it," he concludes, with something close to approval. "That's good tactics...
...will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement...