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Despite the steady stream of equipment deliveries, Grenada appeared to lack military readiness. In particular, the government seemed plagued by a shortage of spare parts for army vehicles. Bishop sent a letter to Cuba's Defense Minister General Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, stating that the dearth of Soviet spare parts had rendered 23 out of 27 trucks and eight out of ten jeeps completely immobile. Bishop also complained that the Soviets had shipped to Grenada thousands of combat boots that were too small for the island's troops...
Elitist snickering rose to poisonous levels in Washington when Dwight Ei senhower painted by the numbers, read westerns, ate on a TV tray and fished for trout in a stocked stream. What could you expect from a soldier who ranked 61st in a West Point class of 164? How we miss him. He did not panic every time the Soviets threatened. He foresaw the hideous nuclear dilemma we face today. He brought people together...
...state of intoxication, usually to work as a slave. Narcisse, who spent several years as a slave on a sugar plantation, reports that zombies do not make very good workers. Says he: "The slightest chore required great effort." He reports that his senses were so distorted that the smallest stream seemed a wide and unfordable sea, as though "my eyes were turned...
Mark Twain's wife once tried to cure her husband of violent swearing by repeating verbatim a long stream of curses he had just let fly. Twain looked at his wife condescendingly: "Honey, you know the words, but you don't know the tune." In a sense, that is true of Watt, although it is unclear that if he knew the tune he would choose to play it. Comedy unveils the soul, but dimly. Still, if Watt resigns this time, or next time, assuming there will be one, it will not be because he had a weak sense...
Conway noted that some of the stream of complaints has come from rooms that do not have applications on file. He said, "some of them may have been misplaced, others may never have been turned in," and he recommended that students who do not have a phone by Monday should check with the Harvard Telephone Office...