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With the U.S. Communist Party and its onetime boss, old (68), grey Earl Browder, both at a decrepit pass, a 1952 federal perjury rap against Browder was dropped by the Government. One of the Government's key witnesses was dead, the other "unavailable...
Somewhat bemused by all this, the 17 U.N. representatives accepted their flowers and settled down in Vientiane's decrepit Settha Palace Hotel and the firetrap Somboun Hotel, emptied for the occasion of its usual tenants-dancing girls and prostitutes. By general admission, the task before the fact-finders was roughly like trying to plow...
Discovering that all of this was great fun, the College fire department soon acquired its own engine, which was tended regularly by students. Once, to keep it in shape, the students set an old house on fire. Because the apparatus was slightly decrepit the boys nearly reached the scene after the neighbors had succeeded in halting the blaze. Undaunted, the students pumped water on the neighbors, who had intruded upon the boys' prerogative. The real compensation for fighting even this blaze was a steak dinner at the Porter House...
...bustling town of Poissy, 17 miles northwest of Paris, needed a high school and thought it had the perfect site. The town council expropriated 18 acres of farm land containing several orchards, a few small market-garden plots, and smack in the middle, a decrepit, uninhabited villa owned by the widow and son of a Paris insurance man named Pierre Savoye. Poissy's mayor proposed to indemnify the family and then tear the villa down. Last week M. le Maire wished he could forget the whole thing. The idea brought a hornet's nest of protests down...
From coastal towns and mountain hamlets, 150,000 Greek Cypriots-more than one-fourth of the entire population of the island-walked, pedaled and bounced in decrepit buses into the capital of Nicosia (pop. 80,000). They clogged the narrow streets, clotted the tortuous alleys. "Makarios, Ma-ka-ri-os," they chanted as the black-robed archbishop rode in triumph beneath arches of myrtle and laurel in a cream-colored Mark VII Jaguar. This, declared Makarios, is "the resurrection of our country...