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...electromatic" typewriters tap out the giant brain's findings, George and Chuck begin to have qualms. The high lama believes that the world will come to an end when Mark V emits the 9 billionth name of God. What if the monks turn violent when the Last Trump fails to sound...
...Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch on the Nile's flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...
Until the trump of Gabriel stills their clatter, Harvard must live with them. It must resign itself to being awakened on Sunday mornings at an hour too late to go to church and too early for civilized men to go to lunch. Worse, it must face the use of the bells as advertisements for amateur theatricals...
...packing industries. Said he: "The range will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition to re-roost its rockets, 16 crofters flew to England to harass the aliens on TV. Last week Father Morrison began talking ominously of his "trump card," a scheme to have the entire flock of crofters emigrate to Canada. "It would cause a revolution in Scotland," he prophesied. Of his own role in the fight, Morrison says: "The tradition here is that the clergy are the leaders." He adds wryly: "I communicate with the bishop on other matters...
...mysterious prowler of Bank Street struck again late Saturday night, his fifth attack on student cars this semester, according to the mechanic at Art Trump's garage. Other garages reported that they had been called to repair damaged cars on Bank Street at least once or twice this spring...