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...Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such an attack now considers himself in on the blood-feud custom-violence which breeds more violence still...
...children blown to bits. The Israeli U.N. delegation commented that it wished the Big Three "would show the same compunction about Israeli dead." But no one accused the Arabs of so bloody a massacre as the night at Kibya. The Israeli Foreign Office, contrary to its usual custom, did not attempt to deny the attack; not until four days later did a spokesman claim with straight face that the soldiers involved were not regulars but Allied veterans of World War II, now farming on the frontier, who had "lost patience." In Jerusalem the government announced that it welcomed U.N. intervention...
...Outsize (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) Tenor Mario Lanza now owns an outsize, custom-built white Cadillac with a gold-plated dashboard...
Sugrue's attitude toward the destruction of the posts is fatalistic, although he is no proponent of the custom. "We try to have a supply of posts made up at the beginning of the season. We hope we won't need 'em," he says...
...great rush of activity which a football Saturday means for President as well as freshman, Sunday morning gives no chance for leisure. The family attends the early service at Christ Episcopal Church, then goes to the 11:00 a.m. service in Memorial Chapel. President Pusey has revived the custom, started by President Lowell, in reading the scriptures from the Old Testament lesson each Sunday...