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...Manhattan, Lebanon's scholarly Ambassador Charles Malik appealed to the Security Council for aid against the "indirect aggression" of the United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge supported Malik, said it was clear that the United Arab Republic has been promoting "civil strife" in Lebanon, stressed that "this is no time to quibble while Rome burns...
Public revenues from indirect taxes, noncorporate income taxes and other tolls on the speeded economy jumped from $27.5 million to $198 million; each of Fomento's investments stirred a burst of economic activity that ultimately returned to the treasury four times as many dollars as were laid out. Wages rose, now average $1,500 a year...
...veterans (who suffered heavy casualties in the Korean war), and money sent home by Puerto Ricans working in the U.S. Washington's grants-in-aid for such programs as health, housing and highways totaled $41 million (which is a bit more than islanders pay the U.S. Treasury in indirect taxes on imported consumer goods...
...startling a leap as any. The increases were occasioned by a frantic haste to recoup for faculty salaries the comparative losses they had suffered since before the war, and in each year of '58's residence there was some sort of faculty salary increase, either direct or indirect...
...Indirect Discourse. In Yeats's phrase, it is "the ceremony of innocence," the rite of existence, and Guinness celebrates it in all his roles. Since existence is a mystery, and cannot be seen or touched or understood like a common physical fact, he has developed a peculiarly orphic language of gesture and intonation. He almost never expresses an idea directly. He relies on his audience to understand the essence of a situation, to realize what the character feels and is; and so he takes more trouble to hide what he feels than to reveal it. It is more than...