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...moonless nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...
With the outbreak of each of the great wars, students felt they should get together and mull over the pressing issues of the day. It was not long before the interested parties found they disagreed, often fundamentally; whereupon the one basic organization split into up to ten subgroups, which enjoyed brief lives and then expired...
...Eastern policy settled down leisurely for three days in Bangkok. To Siam's templed capital came America's top foreign-service officers from stations throughout the Orient. They had been summoned by roving Ambassador Philip C. Jessup and Assistant Secretary of State W. Walton Butterworth to mull over a program that might check the southerly flow of Communism at China's borders...
...government professors and an executive officer of the United World Federalists will meet in Harvard 6 tonight to mull the prospects and needs for immediate world government. The talks will begin...
...Council, as Dean Bender has said, is a "deliberative body" whose chief function is the preparation of reports, "some of which have been extra-ordinarily significant." These reports are the job of the Council's eight Committees, which handle polls, conduct investigations, mull over their findings, and finally write a detailed summary of their activities...