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...inflow of 34.3 gallons is the world's highest, who put a foamy head on a disheartening summer. They scheduled a National Beer Festival at the Château de Fraiture in Liège province, but before the guzzling could even get started, the chateau burned down, lock, stock and beer barrels...
...Chinese: "They say that their country has to rely on its own resources. It is true and it is not true. If you lock yourself within your own frontiers, you lose your economic potential. They say they are going to rely on their own resources, and then they write to us for credits...
...Unruh's enemies are not, of course, all Democrats. Just a couple of weeks ago, in successfully pushing through the legislature a bill to augment Democratic Governor Pat Brown's $3 billion state budget, speaker Unruh took advantage of a quorum-requiring "call of the house" to lock up foot-dragging Republicans overnight in the state capitol; he made the Republicans even madder by offering them the use of his own razor and shower bath if needed. Cried Republican State Chairman Caspar Weinberger, ordinarily a mild-mannered fellow: "These are tactics Stalin, Hitler and other dictators used...
...dispensed with are some old customs. One is riots, called "Row-bottoms" after Joseph Rowbottom ('12), whose roommate was allegedly wont to start trouble by bellowing drunkenly from the street, "Rowbottom! Rowbottom!" The student guide still warns girls to "seek immediate shelter" when Rowbottoms strike; they must lock doors, douse lights and hide until the official all clear. Also looking increasingly archaic is the discriminatory system of fraternities, eleven of them Jewish and 25 gentile...
When dictators ruled Venezuela, the country's prisons were kept in lock-and-key efficiency. This is one thing dictators are particular about. Under the left-liberal government of President Rómulo Betancourt, neither the cops nor the jails are what they used to be. Prisons are run down and poorly managed, and jail breaks are a daily occurrence...