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...Dutch were committed to the project of a "United States of Indonesia," with probable dominion status under the Dutch crown. Last week the Dutch still insisted that every jot & tittle of the proposed agreement must be in place before they transferred sovereignty to the Indonesians ; the impatient islanders wanted sovereignty first, and to tuck in the loose ends later. The most hopeful aspect of the conference was that both sides knew they could not get what they wanted by force...
...visit to what they call a biutiparlor for a champu and a maniquiur. In a franker bid for a picop, some apply lipstic from a vaniti-queis right out in the street. Depending on how much of a bigchot she attracts, a lucky girl will eat jot dogs and aiscrim, go to the muvis, drink jai bols at a cocteil parti, or perhaps even go for a dip in the boy friend's suiminpul...
...much truth there was behind Zenith's cry of changing frequency could only be answered by the FCC in Washington. At week's end, the FCC protested that Chairman Wayne Coy had already discussed the situation in a letter. And so he had, without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment...
...were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that that is changed." Once a woman asked him why he had never taken a Ph.D. "Who," replied Kitty in all seriousness, "would have examined...
Here at the University, the 40 students are expected to pause during the evening and jot down on a penny postcard their guess as to the arrangement of the symbols being used that night. The postcard in mailed off to Duke the next...