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...Harold Macmillan's famous phrase, one former colony after another set out on its own. buoyed by unreasonably high hopes. Few captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
Szczecin, at least 77 died and scores were hurt. Confused by new work rules that threatened to reduce their income and enraged by increases in food prices, workers looted shops and put Communist Party headquarters in several cities to the torch. That was not half so bad as what nearly happened, reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines, who has just returned from Poland...
...Today's announcement is less a passing of the torch than a changing of the guard and renovation of the guardhouse. Pusey is the last of the four top administrators responsible for the April '69 student strike to resign his position. Fred L. Glimp '50, former dean of the College, and Robert B. Watson '34, former dean of Students, bailed out just months after the takeover of University Hall, followed closely by Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty...
...make Briticisms comprehensible to Americans, and Americanisms to Britons. The glossary, which has more than 200 Americanisms, advises the newly arrived American housewife that when she goes shopping for diapers, a baby carriage, a flashlight and a vacuum cleaner, she should ask for nappies, a pram, a torch and a hoover. The housewife will find that while there are no eggplants or zucchini in the food stores, aubergines and courgettes taste exactly like them. If she finds it all too baffling and wants to return home, no moving van will pull up to her front door, but a pantechnicon will...
...cannot. Tyranny, like hell, may not be conquered at all. At least not by us as we are. We have had the life sucked out of us-gigantic blood-swollen ticks sucking at our hearts and heads. The statue with the big torch has burned us to ashes. We can no longer love nor desire nor even hate. We will have to sink back into the clay again in order to form ourselves as men. That's how I will begin. Clay first, then...