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...well to MLF, whose 20 to 25 ships are expected to cost $5 billion over a ten-year period. Thanks to Washington's success in selling MLF to Germany and then to Italy, it seemed at first as if the fleet might be built with only a token contribution from Britain...
...Solal remains his own man, and aside from Reinhardt, he is the only European who has originated a strong and personal jazz style. French critics praise him most for not imitating Americans, and, as a token of respect, his French clique calls him "Mister Solal," subtly proclaiming him the equal of the greatly admired American expatriates...
...Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign in Lisbon. Despite the steady rise in the guerrillas' strength and effectiveness, Salazar's best hope of victory lies in the bitter enmity between the two nationalist movements that are struggling to win Angola's independence...
...Banowit is not doing badly, either. In token of gratitude, the Agua Calientes inducted Big Sam Banowit into the tribe. "He's the first Jewish Indian in the country," said one tribesman...
...social and intellectual context. The contribution of science instruction to the life of the university and to society should include these elements, since science includes them. A science course so constructed as to encompass these elements makes an important contribution to General Education. It need not by that token make a poorer contribution to an education in science. One can defend the view that it is all the better science for being good General Education." (Redbook, p. 222; not italicized in the original...