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Landing Party. Hurst had his hands full, and not the tiniest of his troubles was the demanding U.S. ambassador, who wanted more security for American citizens in Lancelot, insisted that the military negotiate with landowners for the use of any appropriated property, complained that a Marine vehicle had run over a native and that no doctor had been summoned. To top it off, the ambassador was sore as blazes because some petroleum facilities owned by an American who happened to be a personal friend of the President of the U.S. had been sabotaged by marauding guerrillas...
...tiniest state in the Union, tucked away on the rocky New England coast, a young and, in national terms, little-known Republican Governor emerged last week as one of his party's most potent vote getters. He was John Chafee, 42, who was re-elected to a second term in Democratic Rhode Island with a plurality of 85,604 votes...
...half-dozen or more familiar forms of leukemia, he says, it is common for an AIHA process to develop at some stage of the disease. In the AIHA phase, though red cells are the likeliest victims of autoimmune destructive processes, it is not unusual for the platelets (the tiniest solids in the blood, essential for clotting) to be destroyed...
...Trans Caribbean Airways began offering a double for seven nights and eight days, with two meals daily, plus a round-trip ticket from New York, for $239. Within two weeks business jumped to 95% of capacity. Some hotels do not charge for kiddies 14 and under; when the tiniest members are along, they throw in free baby sitters...
...surprisingly widespread contention that only a few in Germany were guilty, while the rest did not know what was going on. these German writers reply, "Nonsense. Everybody was guilty, in some way." Eloquently, angrily, they argue that the destruction of individual character (and of nations) begins with the tiniest indifference, the smallest act of cowardice, the most microscopic compromise...