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Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed...
Similarly, he had reservations about the swarming of poets into U.S. colleges and universities after World War II, even as he joined the throng. Teaching, which he called "the next thing to hereditary wealth," paid his bills, but the maverick artist in him rebelled against "this whole literary-academic, semi-fashionable, established accepting-things-at-their-own-valuation world." Privately, he bit the doddering hands that fed him: "The faculty of the college are very much like the city of Greensboro [N.C.]--though this is doing an injustice to several trees which are cleverer than several of this faculty...
...Amid the throng of students who packed Lavietes Pavilion for last night’s showdown with Dartmouth, a large sign proclaimed “Gimme Some...
Because the piece only called for winds, the only players on stage were tucked away in the back corners of the stage behind a throng of chairs intended for the strings. This bizarre stage arrangement added to the sense of distance and otherworldliness present in Stravinsky’s composition...
With the provost, Steven E. Hyman, literally rallying to his side, Summers took a circuitous route to the Faculty meeting from his office in Mass. Hall yesterday, carefully avoiding the throng of protestors that would have met him on a more direct journey...