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Achilles would "share my tent with none but the bearded Patroclus," and Castor could not live without "my dearest friend Pollux, my other self." There have been some who flatly denied the fundaments of gregariousness, like Thoreau who "never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." Yet, once again this week, the annual Experiment compels most clean-living Harvardmen to engage, if only superficially, in the qualitative analysis of their perspective upper-bunkers...
...millions of dollars, prodigious master of a prolific harem, had come to call on the President of the U.S. He arrived on the U.S. liner Constitution, said his farewell to the ship's hands with gifts of money and gold watches, stepped ashore into a green-and-white tent to be greeted by Presidential Representative Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and sundry officials...
...spare them from life in a tent...
...notorious evils. For the partnership between king and company has been based from the first on strict terms of U.S. noninterference in Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. The royalties Aramco pays provide 90% of the government's revenues. Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms and holy places. But no U.S. adviser has his office in the palace compound (as the British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere...
...Cramped Ground. In Manhattan, after he arrived by ship from Rotterdam, Motorbike Tourist Hugo De Wys scouted the area, regretfully told well-wishers he would have to leave immediately because there was no place to pitch his tent...