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...Point. In Mobile, Ala., after a rash of lawsuits against the city from women who claimed that they had tripped and injured themselves on city streets, the city commission introduced a bill to outlaw spike heels more than one inch high or less than one inch in diameter...
...twentieth century novel? I think James would be delighted with Faulkner's technical virtuosity, at its best. Lack of professionalism would have bothered him--James was a professional. And he didn't like violence in the novel. There are a few suicides and accidents, but nothing rash. His novels deal with mature people and the problems that arise among mature people...
...French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal delays and without rash haste." Last week, despite all of Belgium's careful timetables (local council elections next December, establishment of the first parliament next year), the freedom-hungry Congo appeared to be hurtling headlong toward chaos...
...only Premier but the nation's chief fireman, policeman and garbage collector. He commanded housewives to hang their laundry out of sight, abolished pushcarts, opened sheltered markets, dispatched dredges to the silted canals, bought 60 new garbage trucks for Bangkok, ordered pedicabs off the street. When a rash of fires broke out in the business district last winter. Sarit raced to the scene one night, ordered four Chinese merchants shot on the spot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning down shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year celebration was thenceforth taboo. Fortnight...
Therefore, your claim that the MeBAC theatre is being "used as a weapon by one group to kill off all the others" is shown to be rash and unfounded...