Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson Rugby Club opens its regular season today. The first fifteen will meet Cornell on Dillon Field at 3 p.m., and the second team will face Dartmouth at Myopia Hunt Club...
Sheik Mubarak gave Saud plentiful opportunity to get acquainted. He held three separate lunches for the-Saudi ruler at three separate personal palaces. Fifteen hundred attended one banquet where, among other dishes, 25 young camels and 185 lambs were consumed. Specialty of the day: an entire young camel, roasted, containing an entire lamb, roasted, containing an entire roasted chicken, containing an entire roasted pigeon, contain ing a boiled egg. The repast was enlivened by Saud's five court jesters, who cracked off-color jokes and engaged in pratfall buffoonery...
Before dawn one morning last week, a plastic-bomb* explosion wrecked Mayor Blanc's ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with...
...confronted the nations at the end of the war. A perfect procedure for dealing with Axis criminals was not attainable. Nuremberg was perhaps the best, and certainly not the worst, of the viable alternatives. The United Nations, while approving the principles of Nuremberg, has not succeeded during the past fifteen years in establishing a recognized, stable international criminal jurisdiction to which resort could be had in a case like Eichmann's. So again in the Eichmann case a choice had to be made among practical alternatives, and it is quite wrong to condemn the procedure proposed by the Government...
Another related problem is the number of posts to be established inside Russia of the agreed total of 180. The West wants twenty-one, and Russians fifteen. There is also controversy over the staffing of such posts. The Russians demand that the head of a post must be a national of the country in which it is located; the West maintains that he must be a non-national...