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Though it was cold, the hunters clung there from year to year. During the next two thousand years it grew much colder and damper--a sub-artic world like the present-day tundras of northern Europe. In this severer climate, new species of plants and animals thrived, while others which previously had flourished declined. And the Stone Age hunters, no longer able to stand the winter, went south each fall with the migrating herds of reindeer, to return again in the spring to their favorite camping spot beneath the rocky shelter...
Gunboat Diplomacy. Even before hostilities ended, India had publicly begun to justify its action before the world. It had a case against the Portuguese, who ran an incompetent petty tyranny in Goa and, unlike Britain and France, stubbornly clung to a hopeless anachronism in refusing to get out of India. By claiming weakly that Goa was not a colony but an "overseas province," Portugal did indeed (as India's U.N. Delegate C. S. Jha put it) stand "against the tide of history...
Appeals Refused. On past Christmases. Berlin was the meeting place for families divided by East and West. From the Communist East Zone came die Alten, the old ones-elderly people who clung to pensions, apartments, old circles of friends, rather than escape to the West. The East people would file up the damp stairs of Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin, take the elevated, and ten minutes later emerge into the neon-lit bustle of West Berlin. There they were met by relatives, led to well-heated apartments, treated to chocolate, cigars-and pineapple, which is scarce in the East Zone...
...Nehru was appalled by the possibility that the U.S. might send troops to help preserve the independence of South Viet Nam (a decision Kennedy has not taken). Although Nehru was frankly horrified by Russia's resumption of nuclear testing, he clung to the argument that the U.S. should agree to a new testing moratorium, even without inspection safeguards against cheating. On only one basic issue did Nehru shift his position-and then, only by about an inch. "The President and the Prime Minister," said their joint communiqué, "concurred in the legitimate and necessary right of access to Berlin...
After a second period scoring surge of three goals, the Crimson clung to its one-goal lead through the second half of play to gain its seventh victory in nine games. Al Change, playing center forward in place of the injured Chris Ohiri, scored the first two goals, and Doug Gifford kicked the third and winning count into the nets...