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WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ten thousand Metropolitan Police and Federal troops-supported by Marine paratroopers and the Army 82nd and 153rd Airborne Divisions-arrested more than 7000 antiwar demonstrators here yesterday and herded them into jails and makeshift detention centers...
...first trip to Sharm el Sheikh was in 1956 in a military DC-3. We came in for a hard landing on a makeshift airstrip. There were no roads and no inhabitants. The only man-made attractions were two British-built naval guns that had been spiked by retreating Egyptians. This time, my Arkia Viscount made the flight from Tel Aviv in 70 minutes and glided to a powder-puff landing on a hard-topped runway long enough to accommodate a Boeing...
...village in France's Lozère region shivered in the coldest temperatures ever recorded in the country -29.2° below zero Fahrenheit. Holiday skiers in the Swiss Alps found little joy in temperatures that reached -13° F. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, where makeshift bridges were set up two weeks ago so that pedestrians could negotiate the tide-flooded square, children skied and tossed snowballs. While Scandinavia was unseasonably warm, a deep Arctic freeze brought thick fogs, heavy snowstorms, knife-sharp winds and freezing rain to France, Britain, Spain, Italy, the two Germanys and most...
...choice isn't day care or no day care; it's good day care or makeshift arrangements," she said...
...Three makeshift fours of Harvard heavyweights finished ninth, thirteenth, and nineteenth in their event, and Kirkland House's entry in the junior eight competition wound up twenty-third...