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...tidy as house cats (they lick each other clean after a hunt), and so smart that fanciers claim that a chilly Basenji will grip a shovel in his teeth and heap coal on a dying fire, Basenjis were once favored pets at the courts of Egypt's Pharaohs. In 1936 a pair of them were brought to London. In a decade their number increased to 75 (worth about ?250 each...
...country where deep political and religious convictions often lead to bloodshed, 74-year-old Abul Kasem Fuzlul Huq has a singularly open mind. Huq can be converted, and in the grip of conversion, can convert others. He can also be re-converted...
...Kept a tight grip on the trade union movement in Mexico, held most of the important posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor...
JERUSALEM, March 2-More than 250,000 Palestine Jews were put under the iron grip of martial law tonight as the British Army arrested 60 persons in the first, screening of suspects in yesterday's bloody series of bomb and gun attacks which claimed 21 lives...
...King clad in shorts and soaking up the equatorial sun on the deck of H.M.S. Vanguard. "The papers say he's keeping in close touch with the situation," said he. "Well, 4,000 miles would be close enough for me, too." But many another Briton, shivering in the grip of the coal crisis, took a kinder view as the papers reported, inch by inch, the royal progress to South Africa...