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...occasion was one to stir the hearts of all the Queen's loyal subjects in Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle...
...male schools, called "7005" (to tag them as a separate series), met different receptions. One opened in a rundown part of Brooklyn without a stir. But the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, brought violent protests from the district school board and the local P.T.A. One group grumbled that the old building should be torn down to make a playground for an adjoining new school. Other Villagers made plain their dislike of "a special school for a bunch of juvenile delinquents." Muttered a beat-pounding cop: "They ought to bring up a couple of drill instructors from Parris Island...
...labor unions would' quit pushing for a new round of wage boosts while the economy is drooping, retail prices might well decline far enough to stir plenty of consumer interest. In Manhattan, where the end of "Fair Trade" pricing on appliances brought a hot price-cutting war, housewives showed a frantic, elbowing eagerness to spend money for toasters, irons, rotisseries, clock radios...
...real cowboy. It was wonderful. He didn't know who I was. and all I know about him was that he was very big and kissed me good night. We got back to the ranch about 4 in the morning, and it was just like sneaking back into stir...
...blame for the classroom combat on a small core of Negro bullies whose methods were soon picked up by other pupils. Other troublemakers: chronic malcontents who have to stay in school under Missouri law until they are 16, and non-pupils who invade the school grounds to stir up trouble...