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...Lump of Sugar. In the space of three days, Tshombe 1) promised to "abstain from making any declarations against the U.N."; 2) immediately broke his promise by threatening "a scorched-earth policy" in Kolwezi (see WORLD BUSINESS) ; 3) was clapped under house arrest by infuriated U.N. officials "to restrain him from further irresponsible acts"; and 4) got his house arrest commuted to a nighttime curfew by leading the U.N. troops to the Rhodesian border. Then, having baffled everybody, he vanished once more from the capital...
Taxes. Ike would limit federal with holding so as to collect no more than half of an individual's total tax. If taxpayers were forced to pay the remaining half in a lump sum, said Eisenhower, they would realize more acutely their "contribution to federal profligacy." With less to spend from current revenues, he said, Congress too would realize the need to economize...
...Israeli case history began in 1955, when widowed Bluma Bursi, now 78, developed a swelling on her hip that grew as big as a grapefruit. Laboratory pathologists in Tel Aviv examined the lump after it was removed and declared the growth malignant-a fat-cell cancer. After an apparent recurrence, Bluma Bursi's leg was amputated in 1960. Late last year, she developed severe pain, an abdominal swelling of a type often caused by cancer, along with a suspicious lump, and coughed up blood. Morphine lost its power to ease her pain; doctors gave her only ten days...
...generally fine jobs by the major characters are matched by the excellence of the supporting players (Murray Forbes as Marlow's father is especially outstanding among these last). In addition to expressing the hope that that wonderful lump of a bumpkin Tony will stop shouting, I would add only that Hinkle's decision to cut the prologue is regrettable, since it is clever and to the point and that the program notwithstanding, (it refers to "Mr." Oliver Goldsmith), the gentleman was an M.D. Kirkland House has conquered me, and, my analyst assures me, I'm no stoop...
...break down this life-blighting system, England is trying a new, U.S.-style solution: comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 2,154 students. England and Wales now have 132 comprehensive schools. London, the leader, has 62 serving 40% of the city's secondary school students, and will soon make nearly all of its grammar schools comprehensive...