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Then came the Tower, Brixton Prison and the Old Bailey. Nothing so became Roger Casement as his stride to the scaffold. No reputable barrister would handle his case: the diaries were circulating; the Allies were suffering horrendous losses in France. It was not even seriously questioned whether the English had the right to try an Irish conspirator save as a prisoner...
Rojas, who had beaten Buckley in an earlier outing at Northeastern's track, started out in the lead, but hit a slow quarter mile time of 64 seconds. He maintained a slim lead over Buckley with a half mile time of 2:08, but fell a stride behind shortly before the three-quarter mark. Buckley picked up a stride in succeeding lap and Roja's kick wasn't enough to make up the difference...
BECAUSE DYLAN emerged during the peak of the civil rights movement and began to hit his stride at the time of such breakthroughs as the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, his pacifism and libertarianism were automatically identified with the left. Those were friendly days when whites still worked with SNCC and the distinction between political and cultural radicalism was hazy. Singing songs then seemed a political act --if enough people sang, blacks would withdraw have social equality, U.S. soldiers would withdraw from Vietnam. Smoke-ins looked like acts of political defiance and demonstrations liberated the spirit as much as they dramatized...
Last week S. Claus was loose in the corridors where diplomats and admirals usually stride on their awesome missions. Mr. Claus, otherwise known as Sandy Fox, head of the graphics and protocol office in the East Wing, has a good jolly ho, ho, ho. He carried a string of sleigh bells over his shoulder as he jingled on his prestigious errand from the East Room to the North Portico. Sandy has been the White House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled...
...mood of his country, Prime Minister Den Uyl told a Socialist Party rally that he realized the hardships his outspoken can dor on foreign affairs might bring. "I'm not applauding the earless Sundays," he said, "but I am very happy that so many take it in their stride . . . Look how beautiful a city can be without cars. This crisis is a good training for the things we will have to face sooner or later." To which De Telegraaf nastily commented: "Den Uyl's utterances are so much hot air, for Holland has virtually no influence on world...