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...Winston Churchill died at 2:18 a.m. EST Sunday at the age of 90. He had been in a coma almost continuously since he suffered a stroke...
...France, where rationality is carried to extremes, so is superstition. A common conversational opener is "Quel est votre signe [What sign were you born under...
...telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet est, and people died in rivers that once were streets...
...quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after all, n'est pas si facile...
...logjam. After six weeks of didactic debate, fulminating filibuster and mule-headed obstinacy on all sides, a quorum of weary Senators finally compromised, 44-38, on a "sense of Congress" resolution: federal courts are requested to grant a breathing spell to states reapportioning their legislative districts. In the soft est of language, the resolution asks that courts give the states at least one legislative session, plus an additional 30 days, to meet the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote requirements. But the "sense of Congress" really makes very little sense: there is no legal machinery that can compel...