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Just inside the spotlighted, canopied double glass doors is an eloquent word of warning: "Occupancy by more than 1,700 people dangerous and unlawful." The only nightclub in the world roomy enough to fly such a banner is improbably located on the tawrdry, whiffy flatlands near the southernmost tip of Brooklyn. The Town & Country, sometimes referred to as "Miami Beach in Flatbush," is a 45-minute drive and a $6 cab fare from Manhattan, but it fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such...
Maryland. Baltimore undertook integration promptly after the Supreme Court's decision, and counties soon began following along. After the southernmost county on the Western Shore admitted Negroes to white schools last fortnight, only two counties out of 23 remained 100% segregated...
...Sefra Express was a valiant symbol of what Frenchmen like to call "the French presence" in Algeria. Conceived by Napoleon III and completed under the supervision of Marshal Louis Lyautey, greatest of France's North African proconsuls, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra line is the southernmost portion of a railroad that runs all the way from the Mediterranean port of Oran to the rim of the Sahara...
...should a lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity...
Counterrerror. But was the Sudan quite ready for independence? When Moslem Sudanese took over the British-trained Negro defense corps last August, the old hatred between Negro and Arab burst into flame. In Equatoria, southernmost province of the Sudan, the Negro soldiers rebelled, killed their officers and all Arabs they could find. Said a Negro Sudanese: "They talk of independence, but for us independence simply means slavery under the Arabs...