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Haircuts & Chickens. It is one of the discomfiting truths of South Viet Nam that not all are sure they prefer the unfulfilled hopes of non-Communist rule to the confidently touted certainties of Red government. For Premier Ngo Dinh Diem there is a hard shell of resistance to crack. In one characteristic village of the south last week, some of the people demonstrated what the problem...
...city in Great Britain." Compared with Chicago, Glasgow's crime statistics make it seem like a haven of peace, but in its twisted cobblestone alleys and dingy, Dickensian slums lurk hundreds of drunks, thugs and pickpockets. London's Sunday Pictorial warned Graham what to expect: "These thugs prefer the knife and the knuckleduster to Christ and crusaders...
...paid for. FOA and the State Department like arrangements that help foreign nations develop their resources, e.g., Peru's recent $3,630,000 loan from the U.S., to buy wheat and butter, included $2,000,000 to complete a huge irrigation system. The Defense Department and the Treasury prefer deals by which foreign currencies help defray U.S. costs abroad. But not surprisingly, countries where the U.S. has military bases or expensive economic missions figure that the U.S. will have to pay its expenses anyway. So why not hold out for dollars, rather than food, in payment...
Another factor besides differential room rents contributes t the concentrations of wealthier students in the newer dormitories. The Dean's Office, in sending out room applications to incoming freshmen, does not ask what dormitory the student would prefer. If the applicant should happen to name Wigglesworth, however, he is invariably assigned to live in Wigglesworth for in any other dormitory he has put down. Incoming freshmen who are familiar with Harvard through family or school background are usually aware of this Dean's Office idiosyncrasy. Thus they fill up the better dorms, while the uninitiated freshmen suffer. Fortunately this problem...
...Marshal Stalin replied that as he was an interested party he would prefer to have the President...