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...well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a King before the Magna Carta, sitting under a tree and dispensing justice." Filton, England March 13, 1964 The announcement that the U.S. already has a [military] plane flying at three times the speed of sound sent shock waves across Britain and France, which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. The plane has been plagued by stormy arguments between its builders, British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud-Aviation. The partners have...
Goin can do it too. When we had dinner, she ate from the seven-course menu enthusiastically. But it was her first and only meal of the day. During a 5 1/2-hr. plane ride that day, she had consumed only nuts...
...retrospect, Lehrer said those three years were “a life-changing experience.” In the military, he finally took his first plane ride and travelled outside the United States. Those experiences changed how he treated other people and viewed the rest of the world, he said...
...somebody who really put her nose to the grindstone.”Elkins’ academic safari began in 1989 when she touched down in Namibia to teach English.“I knew almost immediately that this was my future when I got off the plane,” the Africanist remembers.After a trip to Kenya the following year, Elkins could not be kept out of Africa. The next decade would include frequent trips and a year-long stay as a 1989 Fulbright scholar.It was not a wealth of information, but a paucity, that drew Elkins again?...
...truths that we infer are subject to no test of patriotism or loyalty. Without such freedom of expression, we risk leaving life-and-death conversations to the people least able to engage tête-à-tête, those who prefer gun-to-gun, bomb-to-bomb, and plane-to-tower.J. Lorand Matory ’82 is professor of anthropology and of African and African-American Studies...