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...come into being with less enthusiasm or more foreboding. As Republic Day began, cold, drenching rain poured down on Pretoria's windswept streets, reducing the joyous church bells to sodden thumps and the cannon booms to distant plops. A quarter of a million people had been expected to jam the city for the big celebration, but only 25.000 showed up in time for the speeches. Braving the elements. 6-ft. 7-in. Charles ("Blackie") Swart stepped forward solemnly to take the oath as the nation's first President. It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history...
...vacuum there will be. After years of autocracy, the Dominican Republic was a stunned place. Thousands of Dominicans, many of them wailing hysterically, tried to jam into the tiny crypt of the church in San Cristóbal, where Trujillo's closed coffin was laid to rest. Ramfis ordered them out, then, with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death...
...point in a Student Council. Any group can conduct studies and develop reports. Only an elected organization can hope to do this from the standpoint of current student opinion. There is little doubt that undergraduates desire to make their will known: petitions circulate constantly through the Houses and letters jam the CRIMSON bulletin board. The trouble is that these campaigns have small chance of success. Often the people who head them don't know to whom they should present the petitions. A strong Council, respected by the deans and the students, could handle these problems far more efficiently than single...
...settle down, they have toured successfully for two years in such neon nirvanas as the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas and Manhattan's Latin Quarter, where they played last week. The secret is conspiracy. The Latin Quarter pretends that it is wild and wicked. The vacationing dentists who jam its tables pretend that they are hugely entertained when the comedian kicks the M.C. Their wives counterfeit sophisticated smiles when bare-breasted show girls jiggle onstage. And when the Crosby brothers admit that, boy, we really hacked up that last song, everyone cheerfully conspires to pretend that they are kidding...
...redoing of Barcelona, Algiers Antwerp, Buenos Aires, and the war-destroyed French city of Saint-Dié. None were built, but they still marked him as one of the most audacious city planners of his time, the man who more than anyone else foresaw the age of the traffic jam and the exploding slum. At the center of his City of Three Million was a group ot cross-shaped skyscrapers, 50 to 60 stones high, placed far apart in expanses of greebery like "towers in a park." "These skyscrapers," Le Corbusier airily explained, "will contain the city's brains...