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Rice was murdered to make sure that no such thing happened. Lawyer Albert T. Patrick had forged Rice's will, hired Butler Charles F. Jones to hasten his inheritance. Patrick's crime was almost perfect ; he erred only in passing a bad check soon after his client's death.* By that slim margin, the Southwest nearly lost its finest college: rigorous, little-known Rice University (enrollment: 1,963), a 300-acre oasis of lush lawns and cool buildings that seem downright alien in raucous Houston...
...President John Kennedy's deliberately muted statements about Berlin. In Paris. NATO's foreign ministers wound up talks about ways to beef up Western Europe's forces, with the U.S. promising. if necessary, to send six additional Army divisions-but with no firm decision to hasten a showdown...
...Canadian identity, says Johnson, is not nearly so frail as the nationalists think it is. "If it were true that economic integration leads to a loss of identity, how could one explain the survival of minority and regional groups such as the Scottish and Welsh in England?" Rather than hasten U.S.-Canadian union, argues Johnson, an even closer economic integration of the two countries would only improve Canadian living standards, and thus give Canada the means to follow its own political and social course...
...Indeed, Hemingway had brooded and passed judgment upon it in print. In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan thinks about his suicide-father, "that other one that misused the gun," and calls him a coward. Elsewhere, Hemingway suggested that there was nothing cowardly in suicide-if used to hasten what otherwise might be a slow and messy death. Some years ago, his mother, as a present, sent him the Civil War pistol with which his father had shot himself...
...hasten the end of the old coffee system that piled up surpluses and lowered quality by guaranteeing government purchase of every bean grown in Brazil, Quadros promised coffeemen more exchange dollars for higher quality coffee, less for poorer grades. He also ended government purchase and storage of the bottom 10% of the crop (classified "refuse"), began burning the 7,000,000 bags of refuse currently on hand...