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...just as well off without that client." What about Junior's five traffic violations and $125 fine for driving after a suspended license? Didn't they indicate a "public be damned'' attitude? Roosevelt thought not, explained one of the violations was for a blown headlight fuse-and anyway, he got his license back after he became the "proud graduate" of a school for frequent traffic offenders. What. Prouty asked, about some $26,000 in taxes that the Internal Revenue Service claimed Junior owed in 1958? A misunderstanding, insisted Roosevelt, but he would happily pay the assessments...
...that they're hemmed in. And when you feel hemmed in. there's always a bursting out." Says School Superintendent Carl Hansen: "There is a seething discontent in this city which is both justified and frightening. We're sitting on a keg of dynamite with the fuse...
...little civil war in Yemen last week spluttered on like a defective fuse. The royalist tribesmen trying to put the deposed Imam of Yemen back on his feudal throne made hit-and-run attacks on strongpoints held by the "republicans" of General Abdullah Sallal and their Egyptian allies. In return Egyptian planes bombed the tribal encampments and even crossed the border to blast again the Saudi Arabian town of Najran, the main staging area for supplies sent to the royalists by the nervous monarchs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kings Hussein and Saud...
...beginning of the issue are clearly intended to be the Advocate's star turn, show a smoother, firmer, and less meandering use of language than Leubdorf's. But here too one finds the same awkward and acutely self conscious toying with metaphysics. One poem she begins: "The numbered summers fuse to form a tense,/Past-present: separate identities/Abandoned on the beach..."; another "A small departure will elude excuse,/The implication of its vagrancy/Impugn the settlement of old abuse/That makes of larger vice good company." Mrs. Barker presents these dry conundrums as miracles of perception that the rest of the poems will...
...Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem-170,000 regulars, 68,000 Civil Guard troops, and 70,000 Self-Defense Forces...