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Recent talks between Presidents Christopher Gbenye, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Lyere, and Premier Milton Obote marked the beginning of African solidarity and a concerted effort to nip in the bud such crude and blatant neocolonialism in Africa. The fate of Tshombe is clearly discernable. In the next few months Congolese nationalists will be well armed and trained, and it will be extremely difficult for Tshombe and his American, Belgian, and South African mercenaries to hold their...
...flinging electric lights into bathtubs containing villains about to plug him with his own Smith & Wesson, as long as he's kneeing Chigro henchmen in the groin, as he's humiliating underworld moguls by day and shagging their molls at night, how ever can we deny him an occasional nip of Chatesuneuf du Pape '55? Bob J. K. MaeCarran...
Nationally ranked New York University swept the final three epee matches to nip an upset-minded Crimson squad 14-13 at the I.A.B. Saturday. It was a heartbreaker for the Harvard swordsmen, who lost all three of those matches 5-4, and with them the chance to beat N.Y.U. for the first time in the history of fencing competition between the two schools...
With a toughness seldom displayed while in office, he called members of his former Cabinet together on the blue Monday morning after elections, impressed on them that he would nip in the bud any impending challenge to his leadership of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. In his clipped and cocky manner, Home told them, as he told the British people on TV: "I'm leading the Conservative Party-and I mean to go on doing so as long as I am useful in that position." He then proceeded to reshuffle his Shadow Cabinet-the "leader's committee...
...national campaign, Lyndon Johnson was painfully aware that Kennedy's medicare pledge remained unfulfilled. If for nothing but the record, he had to make one last, desperate try. Last week he did. In the Senate, Administration forces won approval of a social security-financed medicare plan by a nip-and-tuck vote of 49 to 44. But the prognosis for House approval of the Senate's action was poor...