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...retreat: "Some place halfway between Nogales and Tucson -a place where I can hit the bars in both towns with equal ease. It will be a place where I'll pat little Mexican children on the head . . . a little white frame house with a rickety front porch where I can laze away in the shade in a straight-backed wooden rocking chair...
...into. Just to my right, I can see a big pattern of light, apparently right on the coast." The glow was the city of Perth, which had prepared? a welcome for Glenn that was also a test of his night vision. Street lights were ablaze. Families turned on their porch lights, spread sheets out in the yard as reflectors. Taxi drivers flicked their lights on and off. When the lights were explained to him, Glenn radioed Cooper a grateful message: "Thank everybody for turning them on, will...
With the Pilgrims in mind, Solarin hied off to the bush to start Mayflower School. Until the boys finished the first housing, the Solarins slept on the schoolroom floor and the boys on the school porch. Since then each new class has built its own dormitory. Also blossoming is academic quality: Mayflower is one of the few schools in Nigeria that make biology, chemistry and physics compulsory. And now the students include girls-an innovation in Nigeria, where women rarely go beyond primary school...
...frames ; then I went to Norway and Denmark and saw lots of them. When I asked where they got the idea, they told me 'from the U.S.' " Unabashed, Jacob continues to push his Swiss model, with chalet-type gingerbread on the yodeling porch (a tiny balcony that forms the crossbar of the A), as well as the Con temporary, with all-glass end walls. Says he: "A lot depends on the banks. If they're as good to us as they were to the boat builders, we'll be launching A-frames like cabin cruisers...
...removal of U.S. sanctions against imports of Dominican sugar, which cost Trujillo $56 million last year. "I've done everything they asked," he told friends. "What are they waiting for?" As his bitterness turned to anger, Castroite López Molina was deposited back on his front porch as gently as he had been removed...