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Before noticing the presence of the pocket handkerchief and the absence of stripes on the sleeves, I would have sworn your example of avant-garde fashion [Feb. 25] was photographed in a Navy exchange. The Double-B look is certainly nothing...
This is far from asking for the cross bussing of white and Negro students that the Committee has sworn it will prevent, and far from touching the majority of the estimated 24,000 Negro students in Boston's classrooms...
...basis of all available information, the overall suitability of each trainee is continually evaluated during training and at the end of the training period. About three out of four trainees are sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers...
...price of a suicide pact, and the pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast -man himself...
Indira Gandhi had promised that she would follow the same policies as her predecessor, and last week, as she was sworn in as India's new Prime Minister, she seemed firmly on Lal Bahadur Shastri's path. Her Cabinet retained all of Shastri's key ministers, and she vowed in her inaugural broadcast that her "first duty" would be the same as Shastri's: to find more food for India's 480 million people, who face famine in the months ahead...