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Speaking for myself, wish you would go a step further and inform the public about the attendance at his shows. This, I think you will admit, would give a truer picture of Sinatra in Australia...
...settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French...
...clear Red sky a Soviet translator named Victor Louis dropped a casual line to Musicomedy Authors Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to inform them that an unauthorized version of their long-running My Fair Lady, its book translated by Louis, will be staged in two Russian cities next season. Despite the fact that they stand to collect no royalties on the Russian production, Louis brassily requested Lerner and Loewe to forward a complete orchestral score for the hit. So incensed that they could have danced all night with rage, the pair promptly appealed to the State Department, the Soviet...
While I was considering the bill in question, I was contacted by one of the General Authorities of the church. He did this specifically to inform me that, while many individuals among the General Authorities and among the church membership were strongly in favor of the Sunday Closing Law, the church as an organization was not attempting to influence my decision. The decision, a difficult one, was made for the reasons set forth in my veto message. This decision in no wise represented a "revolt" against the church...
...violations were largely overlooked by the committee, which urged that girls continue to be responsible for each other. This provision, however, remained so universally disliked and disregarded that last fall Student Government Association followed the course of least resistance and abolished it. "Rightly or wrongly, the code not to inform is deeply ingrained in all of you," Dean Kathleen O. Elliott commented. In general, Annex undergraduates supported the paradoxical position that social pressure actually works more, rather than less effectively when students are not forced to report one another...