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...white boxes where rush customers can drop their passports and applications and be mailed a visa the same day; black boxes for the truly desperate, who can drop off their passports and applications and pick up a visa three hours later. But these efforts have not cleared away the crush, just pushed it onto the street. U.S. Consul General Alan Gise attributes the upsurge to the "Laker legacy" of cheap, no-frills flights, to exchange rates that until recently were favorable, to relatively low U.S. prices for food and hotels, and to the British worker's growing infatuation with...
...today's superpower standards, a Nagasaki-type bomb would be puny-the equivalent of a mere 10,000 tons of TNT. But that might be more than enough to terrorize an enemy, or crush a nonnuclear neighbor. -By Frederic Golden...
...pounded through the mist at a sizzling pace, and when he flashed past the mile pole Summing had set a new training track record, 1 min. 374/5 sec. Four days later, Summing proved that his startling workout was no fluke. He won the Belmont Stakes in convincing style to crush the Triple Crown hopes of Kentucky Derby and Preakness Winner Pleasant Colony, who finished third. Instead of becoming the twelfth Triple Crown champion, Pleasant Colony is now the tenth horse to win the first two legs of the Crown only to be beaten in the Belmont...
...being French: Let us speak of the forgotten man, abandoned, lost, delivered over to the powers that crush him. People in most places are dying of hunger, of misery and solitude; a whole people was killed in Cambodia, and another is being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture...
...other teams to crush are Providence and the University of Rhode Island, both of whom have beaten the Crimson by slim margins this season. Sophomore Jon Mose predicted that if everyone is in top form, Harvard should sweep the tournament...