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...What about a cup of coffee?' I said, 'What about lunch instead?' 'What lunch?' he said. 'It's 6 o'clock.' Anyone can see that in the last four or five years I was quieting down, getting richer and quieter in my work: this was sculpture beginning to tap me on the shoulder...
...babbled on, quieter but more dangerous men were busy. Back from the mainland, where they had gone in case the coup failed, rushed the people who would lead "the people": Afro-Shirazi Party Boss Abeid Karume and Umma's Abdul Rahman Mohammed, better known as "Babu" (Swahili for father). Karume, a burly, bull-necked labor leader who leans to Moscow (and therefore may be the group's moderate), became President, while Babu, whose experience in foreign affairs includes a recent trip to Peking, was named Foreign Minister. Vice President is Kassim Hanga, a bitter Zanzibari with a Russian...
...Duke might just as well write another piece called the Damascus Reel, for Syria, too, underwent a shakeup, quieter but no less significant. Behind the sudden shuffle of Middle Eastern leaders was a power struggle inside a strange new political force, the Baath (Renaissance) Party, which in little less than a year has turned from a shadowy, clandestine movement without popular support into a dynamic power challenging Gamal Abdel Nasser for leadership of the Arab world...
...quieter tragedies of unwanted pregnancies cannot be prevented by manipulating parietal hours. Unlike wild parties, such occasional incidents will happen in the Houses no matter what restriction, short of total elimination of parietal hours, is imposed, But the Deans are simply wrong in thinking that most Harvard students use their rooms during parietal hours for sexual intercourse. They...
Grey, not red, is the color of Communism, and by that standard, Cuba's Marxists are succeeding mightily. Havana, once the gayest city in the hemisphere, continues its steady decline into uniform drabness. The people are quieter, the buildings shabbier, the cars fewer and more dilapidated. The U.S. cars that once taxied tourists around are vanishing fast-and so are the American buses. As bone-jouncing replacements, canvas-covered Russian trucks with wooden benches for seats rattle through the streets. A year and a half ago, Havana's news stalls still displayed a few back copies...