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...later when they were speaking again, Merilee and Sam agreed that it was civilization and cosas which had nearly done them in. Merilee's new thirty-five dollar stove didn't work and the dented refrigerator iced her vegetables. They decided to go to the mountains overnight to drop and scrub the common soul, and took the habachi and the keeds and Stefan with them. They were silent on the way up, both appalled at how close to the edge they had carelessly careened...
...broke down during the 1963 Christmas season. Three years later, the Chicago post office simply ground to a halt for nearly three weeks under a glut of 10 million letters and packages. Even first-class letters can take several days to travel a few miles-or even blocks-whereas overnight service used to be taken for granted. Last July, a rash of sick calls at one post office in The Bronx produced what was, in effect, a strike...
WHERE all this leaves Harvard is perhaps hardest to tell. This University, with its small (less than five per cent) share of Middle South stock, is not going to remake Mississippi P and L overnight. But it would be helpful, as a first step, if those connected with the investment would stop pretending that the company is in a fine state of racial health...
...opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most of his day in court...
...Crimson's chances to do well today were further hampered by Steve Kranse's decision not to make the trip. "I didn't go because I didn't approve of the way the trip was handled." he said. It wasn't necessary to go overnight. "Krause said that if it had been a meet in which Harvard had a good chance to win, he probably would have gone anyway...