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...paper, Penn, has only one line that can compare with any of the Crimson's, and harring divine intervention or Harvard overconfidence, the Crimson should confirm that tonight...
...refusal of the federal government to accept aid (all it can get at this moment) from all relief agencies is deplorable. General Gowon's accusations against someone as nonpartisan and obviously humanitarian as Pope Paul is truly shocking and can only confirm suspicions that the federal government will, in fact, permit (by its inaction and inability to control its own troops) large-scale genocide...
Despite protests from black leaders, it seems likely that the Senate will confirm Carswell, even granting his white-supremacy remarks of more than two decades ago. No one wants another Haynsworthian donnybrook, and much has changed-not least the attitudes of millions of other Americans about race -in America since 1948. Carswell wants to forget his past, just as many liberals have pleaded for their unreasoned remarks about Communism some 20 years ago to be forgotten. Republican Leader Hugh Scott seemed to sum up the Senate's attitude when he observed: "A wise man changes his mind often...
...carried off an entire Egyptian radar station on Dec. 26, half of Tel Aviv knew about it within 24 hours. "My wife heard about it at the hairdresser's," an Israeli officer recalls. "My daughter heard about it at her dancing school." But the government did not confirm the story to newsmen for more than a week, and has been similarly slow or suppressive with other information for foreigners...
...totally stunned when the invitation was first put to me," he said. "I didn't hear until this morning that the Overseers had voted to confirm...