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...Minime,' respondit vox; deinde subiunxit: 'Noli tam magna voce clamare. Jam in primo te clarissime audivi...
Today, 335,000 people jam into Bonn and the surrounding towns. This year Chancellor Adenauer, whose foes always claimed he picked Bonn as the capital because his own home is right across the river in the village of Rhöndorf, prodded the Bonn municipality into drawing up a plan to widen streets, build railroad underpasses, and even clear blocks of old houses to make room for federal office buildings. Estimated cost: $150 million...
Tooting into Paris after a two-month jam session in Africa as good-will ambassador for Pepsi-Cola and the State Department, leather-lunged Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong confided to the New York Herald Tribune's Art Buchwald that the Congo-for Satchmo, anyway-is as safe as a cat's own front porch. "Half the times I didn't know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There...
Living on Pennies. Most of the exiles are middle-class people uprooted from home and job and just barely scraping by. Arriving in Miami with the single $5 bill allowed them by Castro, they jam into households that already crowd 12 to 18 people into a single house, spend their time talking, arguing and fighting their own civil war against the Fidelistas in Miami's permanent Cuban population of some 40,000. Score in recent weeks: two dynamitings, four Molotov-cocktail attacks, one case of arson, about evenly split between pro-and anti-Castro factions...
Petterson tied the score at 1:33 of the second period on a shot from in close, following a jam-up near one side of the cage. There was no assist on the play, but less than a minute later Petterson and another Clarkson player combined to dump one more tally and put the Golden Knight's ahead...