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Anticolonial nationalists won a sweeping victory last week in the first general elections ever held in backward little British Honduras (est. pop. 75,000). The People's United Party carried eight of the nine contested seats, enough to give them a majority in the Legislative Council set up under the colony's new constitution. Said Governor Patrick Renison: "We must give it a go. I will cooperate fully...
...against the flarelight. The Moroccans repel them, and quiet comes. For almost eleven hours the tired armies get a rest. Early afternoon, the Communists slam in heavy strength against Bald Head, and edge the Moroccans off the crest. But De Castries is still confident. "Le moral de mes hommes est formidable," he says on the radio to HQ. "If you see my wife," adds De Castries coolly, "give her a kiss from...
...novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris...
...meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin vortere nondum possum, Abigail Lewis. Et vobis quoque contingat semper pro meritis corona--et vinum, o adulescentes facundi et procaces--tu, Carbo ardens, et vos, Rolande callide edaxque Scote, et tu, o Reducta Valles cui dolus est Diaboli...
Gregem igitur totum summis laudibus ad caclum extollamus. Plausum clarum demus! Iterum enim est demonstratum nos Cantabrigienses in comoedia minime claudicare. Floreant histriones classici...