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Maybe some European colons might mull over the news from Morocco next door. After dodging French naval patrols, the Communist freighter Bulgaria docked at the Moroccan harbor of Tangier, unloaded 3,400 tons of arms, including 14,000 rifles and automatic weapons, which were promptly shipped to the town of Oudjda near the Algerian border. Though the Moroccans last week insisted that the arms were for their own use, French intelligence agents believe the shipment was paid for by Red China. If so, it is the first tangible result of the recent visit of F.L.N. Chief Ferhat Abbas to Peking...
...sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation's leader; at last week's end he headed for London to mull over Commonwealth problems with Harold Macmillan, stopped off en route to discuss the Algerian war with Arab leaders in Tunis...
...years ago that it was almost dropped; now one school has 88 Latin students. Arkansas has 69 Latin teachers, could use 32 more. In missile-minding Cheyenne, Wyo., sons of the Air Force's Atlas tenders are stoutly conjugating mittere ("to send"). But apparently, only a few youngsters mull over the ablative absolute out of sheer joy. Said Teacher Belle Gould of Henderson (Texas) High School last week: "Some of my students asked at mid-term if they could drop Latin and still come to this convention. I said...
...canny goer," is diddled out of an inheritance by his wicked Uncle Ebenezer, who has the boy sandbagged aboard a brig bound west for the Carolinas, where the infamous Captain Hoseason intends to sell him as a bondslave. But the ship is wrecked off the Isle of Mull, and David, washed ashore, soon finds himself involved in a political murder case. Pursued by Hanoverian redcoats, he flees through the Scottish Highlands. Home at last, David lays his uncle by the heels and gets his ancestral portion...
Early Declaration. In Washington, Symington held several meetings last week with his top strategists-Lawyer (and onetime White House aide) Clark Clifford, Representative Charlie Brown and Administrative Assistant Stan Fike-to mull over the situation. There were predictions that Symington would make his formal declaration of candidacy earlier than planned-around April 1. But some of Symington's own high command felt that it was a lot later than he thought. Said a St. Louis advocate: "Symington has waited a year and a half too long to put together the kind of organization Kennedy has. What Kennedy...