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...Athens Polytecnic School nearly a year ago. Fascism is no more perishable than the phoenix, but its victims die. The Greek people suffered from brutal repression to which America was an accomplice for seven years. With the national elections tomorrow--the first in over a decade--Greece will quench internal tyranny, and the United States will have an opportunity to show that it is not wedded to unlawful terrorist regimes...
...biggest factor in Trudeau's decline has been his own political performance. Since he was first elected in 1968, the Prime Minister has managed to dissipate much of the popular enthusiasm-"Trudeaumania"-that for a time made him seem like a Canadian Kennedy. His coolness under pressure helped quench the fires of Quebec separatism that threatened Canadian unity at one time. But his unswerving determination to make Canada truly bilingual, his trendy ways and his flights of arrogance annoyed many English-speaking traditionalists. His seeming indifference to the problems of the Western provinces made him appear to some...
Petrilled Forest. The Loeb is determined to quench the local appetite for dramas of the Depression West and there is no reason why Sherwood Anderson's classic shouldn't leave the customers satisfied...
Drinking during duty hours has long been outlawed in the armed forces; the daily grog ration, which persisted in the British navy until 1970, was abolished for U.S. seamen in the 19th century. But off-duty boozing is another matter. Waterfront bars stand ready to quench the thirsts of a long, dry cruise, while service clubs, which dispense top-quality liquor at bargain prices, encourage the heavy drinking that is almost endemic on military bases. The Pentagon estimates that there are between 50,000 and 115,000 alcoholics among the 2.4 million men in the armed forces, and alcoholism...
...reading: "Develop a thirst for printer's ink and quench it by reading, for from books flows the fountain of youth found...