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Whenever the Sultan showed signs of obduracy. El Glaoui would summon Berber horsemen down from the hills to surround the Arab towns in ragged but menacing array. In 1951, Juin forced a showdown, demanding that the Sultan condemn the Istiqlal and fire all nationalists from the government. Berber horsemen headed for Rabat, and Juin had a plane waiting at the airport to carry Mohammed V to exile if he balked. Glumly, Mohammed V capitulated; he denounced "violence," but he refused to condemn the Istiqlal. To Juin, it was clear that Mohammed would have...
Waving his manicured forefinger at me, Vag continued. "Wherever you go, the Ivy League rites of spring surround you. The sight would be merely distastefully humorous if it were not for the sheer numbers of these primitive people. I shall never dabble in such earthy totems of the tribe...
...Bartlesville scheme will be watched closely from Washington, Manhattan and Hollywood. Says Shapp: "This will make it possible for exhibitors to reach an audience they have never before reached. By electronic means, the walls of the conventional theater are pushed outward to surround the entire city and make it a giant theater." If it works as well as surveys suggest it will, the company expects it to spread across the country and to cover special sport events, opera and live plays as well as movies...
Georgeville is unique in southern Quebec because its inhabitants never see much of the French-speaking Canadians, who surround them on every side. Georgeville looks much like a Vermont village because its original settlers came from New England, bringing with them their traditions of conservatism, content with slow and steady progress, and scorn for over-indulgence. Their descendents generally have upheld these affections, leaning not toward Vermont, a scant ten or so miles across rocky, easy, moulded hills, but toward English-speaking Canada. In architecture, the village has preserved the colonial tradition introduced by its founder, Moses Copp...
Because of Western insistence on "free, unfettered elections" and party government, Stalin arranged that the provisional government (Deputy Premier: Gomulka) should include the Polish Peasant Party and the Social Democrats as well as the Communists, but he had his men ceaselessly working to surround, isolate, blackmail, and even to murder, the democratic politicians. "Poland's secret government,'' wrote Polish Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, "is headed by a man few Poles have ever seen-the Russian general Malinov. His name has never appeared in a Polish newspaper. He has never made a public appearance in Poland...