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...honey-colored presidential palace atop a hill overlooking the capital city of Nicosia, Ball argued for three days with Makarios, a bearded ecclesiastic who might have stepped into the present day from an llth century Byzantine mosaic. Ball quoted chapter and verse to Makarios, showing that the U.N. in previous actions has usually favored the maintenance of the status quo and has repeatedly approved partition as a solution to communal disputes-a solution abhorrent to Makarios and the Greek Cypriots. Throughout the negotiations, Makarios would nod sagely as if agreeing with every point Ball raised. Then he would beatifically repeat...
...simply a mail drop for Communist Chinese spies. Though the newspapers contained no military secrets, Peking's intelligence agents apparently read them avidly for hints of U.S. army morale, announcements of troop movements, maneuvers and other tidbits that might fit into a larger mosaic of U.S. military effectiveness...
Efficiency v. Elegance. To keep pace with a London-based staff that grew from 75 to 2,262 in its 96 years, the Foreign Office desperately divided and subdivided its ornate acreage. Today it is a dim maze of minute, plywood cubbyholes linked by mosaic-floored corridors and a warren of back stairs. Many of the garrets have no windows, or only a piece of one, and most of the windows cannot be opened anyway. Even the mouse-ridden attics have been carved into typists' collectives and digs for bachelor-duty officers...
Plumbing fixtures, like everything else, are increasingly decked in "decorator colors"-the most popular, predictable pink. Second most popular is light brown. Floors may be vinyl or ceramic tile, walls may be the latest Italian mosaic, but the commonest materials for wash basin, toilet and tub are old-fashioned vitreous china and enameled metals. The w.c. of tradition is one of the last holdouts against the Plastic...
...fact, both the number of activities and general attendance at Hillel has increased "non-dramatically" in the past few years. Hillel's program includes religious services, lectures on the Jewish tradition, courses in Hebrew, socials, folk dance classes, and publication of Mosaic. The lectures and services get the greatest numerical response, and this is consistent with Hillel's central goal to provide Jewish students with religious services and instruction. Civil rights work is a secondary aim of Hillel, although Rabbi Gold stresses that "this must be considered a paramount concern until the situation is better and there are enough organizations...