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...work permits to Spaniards for Gibraltar jobs, and in ten years their number has fallen from 14,500 to 9,000. Some 800 Gibraltarians living on the mainland were recently ordered to leave Spain and to return to the colony. Traffic across the border is now slowed to a crawl by Spanish customs guards, who take a full hour to examine each car; scarcely 14 a day are cleared...
...Shall Pay? There are obvious dangers in the new U.S. firmness. But the perils of pulling back or showing a lack of resolution are greater, the chief one being that Red China's expansionist government would see U.S. weakness as an invitation to crawl over South east Asia...
...answer depends, first of all, on how good a skier you are. The old adage that one must crawl before walking applies particularly to the new skier, for there are few activities that make more physical demands and require better conditioning than alpine skiing...
...head. "A vulture," he observes, "makes a wonderful conversation piece sitting on the chandelier." Bernie Hoffman can sell all the tarantulas ($5 each) he can lay hands on. He insists that "tarantulas can really be quite tame. They learn to love their masters. You can teach them to crawl up your...
...fair and honorable vote, but, like mankind's clearest dreams throughout the ages, by the sycophants and martinets who inevitably gravitate into The Establishment. Defeated; not by the honest efforts of her adversaries, not by an honest election, but by the baleful poison of small bureaucratic minds, which crawl and plot at night...