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...recovery, some of Hugo's victims seem to have drawn renewed courage from the calamity on the West Coast. The realization that there are even worse disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced their determination to restore normality to their lives. Hugo tore the roof off Betty Disher's home on Sullivan's Island, which some experts think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake. Now she and her husband Johnny have made an optimistic choice. "We have decided that we are going...
Gromyko, "the world's highest-ranking errand boy," arrived at the opening session wearing, of all things, a Homburg. Hamming for the cameras, the dour old disher-upper of cold-war epithets raised the Homburg and waved, and he cracked a certain smile as he posed with his East Germans at his elbow. (Actually, at least three of the six East Germans, including Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz, are Soviet citizens who spent years in Russian exile, came back to Germany with the Red armies.) Taking his turn in the chair next day. Gromyko pressed for admitting Poland and Czechoslovakia...
...working Juno Boyle slaving away to support her husband, a strutting "paycock" who spends his days carousing with his crony in the pub. But there isn't. The story of Juno's daughter, Mary, who impregnates and then deserts her, raises the possibility that O'Casey is the arrantest disher-up of unrefurbished cliche who ever presumed to deal in "serious" drama. Only in the account of Juno's son, Johnny, the unwilling informer, do O'Casey and his faithful amanuensis ever succeed in evoking sympathy...
Four students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been sent to direct excavation work for C. W. A. projects. Frank L. Thomas 1G, and Kenneth B. Disher 1G, have been sent to the Tennessee Valley where archeological sites are soon to be flooded by dam construction and therefore be unavailable for further archeological investigation. Gene M. Stirling 3G, and Erik K. Reed 3G, are stationed in Florida. It is expected that still more men will answer the Government's call for archeological authorities for this work...
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