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...begins one of the most famous of modern ghost stories. "Midnight struck," as Bosco himself later told it, "and I then heard a dull, rolling sound from the end of the passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco...
...nearer the British and French got to their final pullout from Suez, the more boldly the Egyptians displayed resentment of their presence in Port Said. A British lieutenant was kidnaped in broad daylight, a major seriously wounded when a bomb wrapped in a bread loaf was tossed into a crowded staff car. When 600 British troops ransacked the Arab quarter and rounded up 1,000 men and boys in a dead-or-alive hunt for the lieutenant and his kidnapers, Egyptians carried out a dozen or more grenade, small-arms and even rocket attacks on British and French night patrols...
Lloyd's denial did not cover what the real accusation of collusion was about (TIME, Nov. 12). This was that Britain and France knew in advance that BenGurion was going to attack Egypt, though they expected the invasion to take place nearer U.S. Election Day, a few days later than it actually did (thus accounting for the initial slowness of the Anglo-French operation). France viewed with enthusiasm, and Britain with at least equanimity, an Israeli attack on Nasser, and both France and Britain conspired to keep the U.S. in the dark about their Israeli intelligence and their...
...carrying a loaded revolver-was a humiliation to a chieftain who had once ordained life and death for hundreds. His defense was a meeching plea that he was coming out of the forest to surrender when he was captured. "But he could have surrendered to a police post nearer home," one of the Kikuyu elders at the trial pointed out, and the other two agreed. "Kimathi did not come out of the forest as a man of peace," they said, making the court's verdict of guilty unanimous. "The witnesses lie," sneered Dedan Kimathi, but Chief Justice Sir Kenneth...
...docks, and can cross the Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the state Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after the war. During the war the dome of the state Capitol on Beacon Hill was painted grey...