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When a blind person wants to find, for instance, the windows of a room, he swings his probe around and listens for a faint ticking sound in his earphone. The faster the ticking the stronger the light that is reaching the photocell...
...rebels retaliated by hanging Soviet soldiers. Roaming bands of rebels outside Budapest drove back Soviet units, set up roadblocks and cleared a corridor toward Vienna. The tide of battle was turning towards the provinces, and the faint voice of "freedom stations" was heard calling for a general strike throughout the country. An independent Hungarian government was reported to have been set up at Gyor (pop. 66,000), an industrial town 66 miles west of Budapest. At Pecs (pop. 87,000) in the south one rebel radio station was heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian...
...leaves). The next arrival is Caleb Aldrich, a malarial preacher who loves Africa nearly as much as Rachel does, and they both settle down to properly married life among the Bantus-not before hesitant Caleb has been pulled together by Rachel and bagged four lions. There is only one faint dissonance. Rachel muses: "Do I love him or the country more...
...praise is admittedly faint, however, for Dulles' action immediately preceding nationalization shaped Nasser's reaction. It is true, of course, that discussions with Egypt about the Aswan Dam had been long and tedious, and it is also undoubtedly true that Nasser was trying to bluff the West with a nonexistent Soviet offer. But how the West could have withdrawn its offer only two days after Nasser had publicly accepted it, and at the same time have expected no startling results, is difficult to understand. Washington obviously thought a public insult by the deeply distrusted West would result in the Colonel...
...private or University lot by November 19. If these lots were less expensive (private parking costs $50, the University's $30) and were nearer than the Business or Divinity Schools the plan might have been worthwhile. But as is, the Administration's policy is merely short-sighted, faint-hearted, and unfair...