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Thus, we do not know quite what to do when Angelo comes up with a plan to use his son's paramour, a pregnant prostitute, to destroy McCalla for good. So we chuckle. Although the plan is ingeniously appalling, it is not particularly hor-these two sides of Angelo's characrifying, because Angelo is more humorous than human...
...this attitude that motivated De Gaulle to carry through, in 1945, most far-reaching social reforms France had seen since before W.W.I. sweeping program of nationalization was carried out, and factory unions received great consultative powers in labor-management. "The unity of France demanded that hor workers morally reintegrate the national community," commented De Gaulle...
...musical instrument lovers, its christening featured E. Power Biggs and free drinks for all. A late afternoon sun streamed through the windows and onto the stone floor of Romanesque Hall as groups of organists, German professors, and "friends of Busch-Reisinger Museum" clustered excitedly. Voices drifted between the hor d'oeurves...
Last year, relentlessly battered by Malayan and Commonwealth troops, Hor Lung began to retreat deeper and deeper into the jungle. He drove his men mercilessly, refused to be stopped by mounting casualties or dwindling food supplies, seemed determined never to be conquered. Then one day he simply wandered away, stripped off his uniform and headed for the police. Fearing that the news of his surrender might somehow imperil their efforts to persuade other terrorists to give up, government officials kept it a secret. Only last week, on the eve of Malaya's first anniversary of independence, did they...
...after ten years of guerrilla war. In flushing the terrorists out, the government had resorted to an extraordinary tactic. "If money can buy the end of the emergency," said Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last week, "we will buy it. We cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle to spot other guerrillas. So far, the government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that...