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...torn Algeria into peaceful Tunisia last week. They were locusts, countless millions of them, spawned in areas of Algeria where the civil war had slackened normal spray control. They descended on scores of tiny oases in Tunisia's date-and-olive country. With horrified fascination Tunisians watched them swarm over the ground, in a matter of hours eat every green thing in sight, and then disappear into the hearts of the date palms, thereby dooming the trees...
...introduction to the report notes: "It is hardly necessary to document the evidence for the lack of real interest in the intellectual life of the University on the part of all too many students; the swarm that descends on "gut" courses, the hundreds whose memorization of the student outline is the only discipline their minds get in a course, and the multitude who simply take notes and disgorge the lectures, duly organized, on hour tests and examinations testify to the apathy of the average Yale student towards his studies. The theme is repeated by faculty and students alike; many have...
...they descend on Sweden? Now there is a country that probably has the most lax moral standards of any country in the world and a country that is almost exclusively Protestant. But I have an idea that the Swedish people wouldn't take kindly to a swarm of missionaries...
...late afternoon the Sixth Fleet had sailed: from Cannes the 60,000-ton supercarrier Forrestal, from Naples the 45,000-ton battleship Wisconsin, from Leghorn the carrier Lake Champlain, from Villefranche and Marseille the heavy cruisers Salem and Des Moines. With them steamed a swarm of destroyers, transports, tankers. Under leathery Fleet Commander Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, the atomic-armed Sixth was eastward bound to back up and buck up little Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...