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Gibson cited a meeting which was being covered by Times reporter Fox Butterfield in which someone in his administration, who objected to having reporters at town meetings, walked over to Butterfield and broke his pencil...
Butterfield then demanded that Gibson arrest the man who broke his pencil, saying, "I was assaulted," according to the former mayor...
...about Bachrach. He merely asked them to accept his cryptic condemnation on faith. (It's hard to imagine any decent editor letting a writer get away with this sort of ipse dixit, but I guess the owner of a magazine doesn't have to submit to the usual red pencil...
...pencil-thin tree--which was planted Saturday--stands in front of Matthews Hall, across the path from an oak and a maple which were planted in front of Grays Hall before the 350th celebration last month...
...version, claiming it was faked by the British in order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries maintain joint control...