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Chamberlain further asserted that recognition of Red China would "pull the rug out from under" Nationalist China and other American allies in the Far East, especially since the U.S. has had a set policy for so long...
Hamlett's shift in direction mattered considerably to the drowsy Berber market town of Azrou, in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Last week, six months after his arrival, most of Azrou's 4,000 rug weavers, wood carvers and farmers were erudite enough to flavor their conversation with at least a few words of English-spoken with recognizable Tennessee drawls. And the strange rhythms of U.S. natives, as recorded in the waxings of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, are now familiar in a region where no American had ever lived until Hamlett came there six months...
Sigmund did other research at Heidelberg, Paris, Cologne ("I worked best in Cologne; Paris was lovely, Cologne was duller") and in the summer went to Tunisia for a student meeting. "The Russians were terribly active. One fellow constantly took notes on everything, even on rug factories." Then came Yugoslavia and a seminar on the unification of the student world. The Chinese were there in full force ("Their leader spoke perfect English learned on a U.S. air force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet...
...Harvard Liberal Union yesterday endorsed a report attacking Congressional proposals to extend the present draft for four years. The statement accuses Congress of "taking the easy way out and sweeping the whole problem under the rug...
...Sorry. Anyway, I was afraid I'd spill stuff all over the nice rug. So I drank some. So now there was less in the glass than there was before, but now I was less steady, so I had to drink some more to keep it from spilling on the rug. So after awhile the glass became a pitcher, and the pitcher became a barrel, and the barrel became a hogshead, until finally I was tied in with a direct pipeline that was connected up to all the gin and tonic in the world. There I was, trying to drink...