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...past I have felt that I could boast of London's superiority insofar that such gatherings of students there were both more successful and enjoyable. However, I now feel that my opinions were inaccurate. Little did I realize how savagely aggressive a police force could be in dispersing a rally which, as in London, had been permitted by the local police chief. I dread to think what the Cambridge constabulary would have done should I have tried to steal a cap or two. It is not hard for me to remember the good-humored way in which a group...
...then, the term "new car" is somewhat misleading, insofar as it signifies progress. This year's automotive atmosphere is typified by a Boston dealer's justification of the high price on his new model--"well," he said, "the trim is nicely finished...
Central Africa's 169,000 whites in the three territories strongly support federation. Said chunky Roy Welensky, unofficial Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia: "If three people are going down a dark road, they'd better stick together." But 6,000,000 Africans, insofar as their sentiments can be judged at all, seem as strongly opposed. With federation they fear that Southern Rhodesia's South-African-style "color bar" would be extended to the other territories. They are unwilling to lose the protection of the British Colonial Office, which traditionally shields the African from racial persecution...
...five-eighths of a mile) in radius, that three-mile radius circles around Kaesong and Munsan and a 400-meter (438-yard) corridor along the access roads should be free from hostile attack. Finally, the Reds accepted the U.N. assurance that flights over the protected zones would be limited "insofar as practicable." The U.N. is putting up orange, cerise and yellow balloons over the site to mark it by day, and searchlight beams to mark it by night, to avoid mishaps...
...third time they met, they went to bed in a cheap hotel. Bendrix, who was writing a novel in which a civil servant figured, had merely intended to quiz Sarah for some facts about her husband's habits. Before he knew it, he was in love with her-insofar as he was capable of love. For him the affair became a sexual obsession, a jealous appetite. For Sarah, a simple, faithless woman, it was honest love, marred by Bendrix' jealous rages. Both of them tried to think of Henry Miles as merely a tiresome inconvenience who sometimes upset...