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...pround-to-air missiles, manned by 3.500 to 5.000 Soviet technicians. Six sites already surround the harbor of Alexandria. Six other sites encircle Cairo, and four more are a short distance away at Cairo West, where Russian forces have established their headquarters in a for mer British base. Four clusters of SA-3s protect the Aswan High Dam, two more are believed to be at Baltim on the Mediterranean coast, and others are at the Russian bases at Mansura and Inshahs. The number of SA3 sites, each with eight missiles and 100 to 150 men, may eventually reach about...
...Germany. Today there are 1,670,000, including 350,000 Italians, 326,000 Yugoslavs and 290,000 Turks. In France, whose migrant population of 3,000,000 is the largest in Europe, squalid shanty towns known as bidonvllles (after bidons, flattened gasoline cans that provide the basic building material) surround practically every major industrial city. In Switzerland, where the migrants now account for one-sixth of the population, a tourist is apt to discover that the only Swiss citizen in a restaurant is the man behind the cash register...
...strip of ground between Harvard and University Halls will be a free zone where members of either team can avoid capture by the other. A free zone will also surround each flag, NAC announced...
Elly Stone made it an ingredient of her debut. Oceans of eerie quiet still surround Brel's 16-bar novellas at every performance. The narrow, tremulous wraith appears in black velvet pants and jacket, a little lace jabot at her throat. The mordant chords purl from the back of the stage, and she becomes an authentically possessed figure. On the slow numbers, the words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does...
...release of the transcript and Justice Boyle's report seemed to preclude any further criminal action against Kennedy, though a new grand jury investigation is theoretically possible. But it did nothing to solve the mysteries that still surround the case or to resolve the doubts about Kennedy's veracity. It also failed to account for local officials' inept handling of the case from beginning to end. Police Chief Dominick Arena never asked Kennedy why he had not reported the accident for nine hours. District Attorney Edmund Dinis seemed noticeably reluctant to enter the case at all, then pressed belatedly?...