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...last week, eight bombs exploded in the city, knocking out the electricity in a fifth of Havana, including the business district. Burning phosphorous sticks went into the mail drops at the central post office to burn the day's mail collection; another bomb burst a water pipe at an intersection...
Hiken titled his winning entry, "Is Pipe Smoking a Mystery to You?" Boyd won the second place prize of $100 with "Plato on Leavitt & Peirce, one of his more recent dialogues." Two third prizes of $50 each went to Deborah R. Pavan '61 and Robert Reardon...
Wisps from the Pipe. The hassle was an old story to the U.N. staff in Leéopoldville. Brawny, racist-minded Diplomat Welbeck, once Kwame Nkrumah's top political skull-basher back in Ghana, had long been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah's bidding, he shot about the Congolese capital lining up all possible support for Colonel Mobutu's archfoe, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba, and was helped in his endeavors by the curious policy of the U.N. Command's Rajeshwar Dayal who offered U.N. protection to virtually everyone save working...
...Nussbaumer's ultimatum, the U.N. sent reinforcements that raised the U.N. guard at the Ghanaian embassy to 170 Tunisian soldiers. The Congo was represented by a handful of military police headed by busting Security Inspector Henri N'Gampo, which frequently retreated behind a hedge to stuff his pipe with bangi, a Congolese form of marijuana...
...idea we develop that is approved by the fire underwriters," he said. "The London Hilton would cost 10% to 15% more if we were building it in New York." The British accepted easier-to-install copper plumbing and approved a modern plumbing layout that eliminates 80% of the pipe. New York will not, because the plumbers' union objects. Any attempt to change a code brings a cry from labor unions and trade associations. The plumbers complained, and the Lead Industries Association threatened to cancel a convention in a Hilton hotel after Tabler publicly advocated eliminating lead pipe in bathroom...