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...diplomat. Said Winn later: "We heard a burst of automatic fire, and we both looked at each other, and then it blew." He and others rushed to the Ambassador's office, where they found Miers shaken but not seriously hurt. The British envoy asked them to help him dig out Bartholomew, who was so covered with rubble that he was not even visible. Like Miers, Bartholomew was not badly injured. The two diplomats briefly surveyed the devastation below and were then taken to the hospital...
Although Harvard will have to dig deeper than in past years to pay a tax of 34.7 percent of assessed value on its commercial holdings to the city, Councilor David L. Sullivan said he thought Harvard would benefit overall from the new rates...
...depiction of President Lyndon Johnson as a beset King Lear for TIME'S 1967 Man of the Year issue. Since 1980, Levine's pen has added vivid detail to TIME'S reports on congressional and gubernatorial races. Says he: "Caricature is not portrait painting; you cannot dig that deep. You bring to it your own philosophy-about politics, about life. Mine is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible...
...great television theater we have created demands more. It demands action, color, drama, confrontation. About the only way to catch the jaded eyes and ears of the anchormen is to hurl outrageous accusations, to dig up forgotten skeletons, to manufacture blame. An industry of inventive taunts is springing up this fall among the candidate handlers...
...aboriginal skulls, each more than 10,000 years old, from being sent to an exhibit of human evolution at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Declares Lawyer Jim Berg, an aborigine who has been a leader of the campaign for native rights: "We don't dig up white people's cemeteries, so why should they be allowed to dig up ours...