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...this was more than apparent last week, as the party held its 74th annual meeting at Salt Lake, a desolate flat on the edge of Calcutta. Eighteen months ago, the flat was jammed with thousands of Bangladesh refugees. Last week between 30,000 and 40,000 party regulars met in a $700,000 tent city as princely as a Mogul encampment. Party Leader Indira Gandhi was housed in an elegant $107,000 "hut," which aides hastened to explain would serve as a guest house for a housing project to be built on the site. Nonetheless, New Delhi newsmen were stunned...
...good people know not what time and trouble it costs to learn to read. I have been employed for eighteen years on it, and cannot say that I have reached the goal yet. --Goethe...
...Eighteen teams from colleges in the Greater Boston area participated in the season opener which is named for the original custodian of the Wellesley College swimming pool...
...SETTLEMENT NOW. Eighteen years have passed since the Geneva agreements [of 1954] should have ensured peace. In those 18 years the Americans have tried various strategies. The latest of these-Vietnamization-met with heavy setbacks. We want peace and independence in South Viet Nam, but if the Americans continue their plans for war, we are also prepared to continue...
...STRANGE NOTION: people living "inside a flattened cylinder fifty metres round and eighteen high," bounded by hard rubber walls, pulsing with shadowless yellow light, oscillating between extreme heat and cold--"abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...