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...open Mercedes-Benz. At the intersection of two of Calcutta's big streets, the Russians waved their straw hats, and Khrushchev cried out in their own language: "Hindi Russi bhai bhai!" (Indians, Russians, brothers, brothers!). Instantly the crowd burst forward, shattering police lines and bamboo barricades to swarm over the car. Some clutched Bulganin's coat. Others seized Khrushchev's hands and arms. As the Indians piled their weight upon the Mercedes, it broke down. With police aid, the visitors pulled themselves clear of the clustering crowd and fought their way to a nearby police van. Behind...
...pavilions overflow, and the surplus spills into the streets. Sides of mutton hang along the northern wall of the church of Saint Eustache; mountains of crated cabbages and oranges block the sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...
...Latinist and knew more about St. Thomas Aquinas than about the contemporary Thomas (Norman) for whom many of the faculty members cast their votes. Outwardly, there was nothing much to set her apart from the conventionally unconventionalVassar girls who, on graduation, shec their pearls and Brooks sweaters anc swarm down the Hudson to arrive, after false start or two, in a marriage suitable for mention in the Alumnae Magazine...
...transaction authorized by Congress and executed by President George Washington (who owned vast tracts in eastern Ohio himself). Part of Zane's Trace became in time the National Road (now U.S. Highway 40), which linked the East with the wide-open Midwest and helped populate Ohio with a swarm of new settlers (250,000 in ten years alone). Last week, some 100 miles to the north, Ohio completed a new kind of link between East and Midwest: the 241-mile, $326 million Ohio Turnpike...
...confidence men evaded a swarm of swindled freshmen last night and escaped with an estimated fifty dollars. The two men, posing as College seniors, duped an estimated 25 students of two dollars apiece before the freshmen realized they were being hoaxed...