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...Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed 40 people...
...people in the area outside of U.S. control come out only at dusk and dawn to try to grow enough rice and manioc to survive, but planes attack any sign of life. Anything moving is shot at-even trails and cultivated fields are bombed. Reportedly all strategic targets of any kind have been destroyed, and the bombing is now simply plowing up ground...
...with an X-ray telescope that has already detected at least two sources of X-ray emissions in distant space. So overjoyed were the Russians by Lunokhod's performance that Pravda was moved to proletarian metaphor and compared the little vehicle to a faithful "workhorse that toiled from dawn till sunset...
...gray dawn broke over Brussels, the newsmen were invited to go upstairs. "A major breakthrough?" inquired one reporter. "D'accord" replied Rippon, speaking fittingly in French. "The dialogue of the deaf is over." French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann also seemed pleased. "The results," he said, "need no commentary." Schumann added that the entire negotiations could be completed by the end of June. Since Ireland, Denmark and Norway seek to join at the same time as Britain, the Six could become the Ten by 1973-with a larger population than either Russia or the U.S. and a gross national product...
...demonstrators, who had been getting up before dawn and spending nights planning and getting friends out of jail, had run out of gas. At the gathering places like American University, where two days before you would see people in intense discussions of political tactics, now all you could see were bodies stretched out on floors, tables, chairs: any place they could get an hour or two of sleep. Where the demonstrators had made the effort to rap and persuade on Monday, now they were just too damn tired to care...