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...Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...
...children have had the luck to grow up amid such intellectual variety. Grandfather Richard Garnett actually lived in the British Museum, where he was Keeper of Printed Books. Father Edward, who climbed the museum roof as other boys climb trees, became one of Britain's most influential literary advisers. Mother Constance learned Russian to while away the time, soon became the foremost English translator of Russian literature. Her toughest assignment: War and Peace, from which she emerged half blind...
...tinkered with the dead machinery. "Quick, Manuel, or we'll be caught," urged Candido. But the helpless craft was already broaching to the sea. As the other boys tried in vain to rig a sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered on the beach to kneel and pray in the driving rain...
Motion Seconded. In Toledo, to back up his request for an additional reptile keeper, Zoo Director Philip C. Skeldon turned loose a wriggling 7-ft. indigo snake at a city-council meeting, quickly...
Powhatan's Children. In Hartford, Conn., Mary J. Russell, duly elected Keeper of Wampum for the Degree of Pocahontas, pleaded guilty to taking $4,000 from the society's treasury...