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...sent down to train Haiti's soldiers, has indicated still more U.S. displeasure. In a note, approved by the highest levels of both the Pentagon and the State Department, he coldly suggested that Duvalier abolish the brutal 8,000-man militia that operates as the dictator's irregular private army, terrorizing the French-speaking Negro republic...
...balloon as it separated from the rocket nose and sailed smoothly ahead. Then the canister split in two halves; the released balloon began to inflate, its folded segments billowing outward as 52 lbs. of powdered benzoic acid in its interior turned to gas. At first the balloon formed an irregular watermelon shape, sunlight glittering on its irregular surfaces. Then the skin tightened into a polished sphere...
Eble proceeds to offer an analysis of why college teaching is "a peculiar profession." He thinks "the basic oddity...is the common truth that thinking is a peculiar way to earn a living." He cites the teacher's irregular working hours, and the fact that he "deals directly with a minority of the population," in a milieu sharply marked off, in the public mind, from other occupations...
Fashion designers-like the fashions they design-go in and out of style with the irregular cadence of the female whim...
...provide a fascinating experiment in literature and life. Simone had befriended a student of hers; the girl came to live with them and eventually caught Sartre's attention. The odd menage a trots that resulted drove Simone frantic and offended their friends-not because it was irregular, but because they couldn't see what Sartre saw in the girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that the wife eventually murdered her. Of this denouement...