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Under the circumstances, the most promising tactic for Schramme and his men would be to scram. The big question is how to arrange their escape. At week's end the U.S. and other embassies were putting pressure on the Congo's eastern neighbor, Rwanda, to permit the meres to cross the border and be evacuated by plane...
Plots & Gloats. Author Griffin prints his story on a huge and variegated back cloth as complex as the ancient, untidy city that it portrays. It recounts history, both ancient and modern, and includes a decayed family of vulpine, voracious aristocrats who are scram bling madly for possession of a disputed inheritance; an oily industrialist who is patiently plotting to marry his fatuous daughter to the family's weak-minded young heir; a bumbling, gentle pedant who is complacently gloating over a fortune to which he does not yet have legal title, and as lusty a collection of blackmailers, murderers...
...Scram" & Sonar. The Atomic Energy Commission's Atomsville is the highlight of New York's still-aborning museum. Parents are not allowed inside Atomsville, but through television they can watch children simulate bending a beam of electrons, handle "radio active" material with mechanical hands, and run a mock reactor that will shut off when it reaches the "scram" level -just as it does at Oak Ridge...
right square in the eye and said, "bye-scram...
...days, who greased his feet, wore no socks, lived on bread, cheese and a quart of red wine. But none ever better earned the nickname "the Legion of Death" than the present (mostly German and Hungarian) legionnaires, who took 10,000 casualties in Indo-China, 1,236 in Algeria. "Scram, carrion!" a guard shouted defiantly to newsmen last week. "You will not see the Legion...