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Tanks & Jets. Thieu, with Ky following a respectful two paces behind, first lit a symbolic flame of freedom in a large urn, then mounted the red-carpeted steps to recite the oath of office. When he was finished, pretty Vietnamese girls in ao-dais released hundreds of colored balloons into the air. In his brief, plain-spoken inaugural address, Thieu told the South Vietnamese that now "my preoccupations are your preoccupations; I shall rely on your eyes to see more clearly and your concern to gain a better knowledge." He again offered to hold direct talks with Hanoi...
Captain Jane Chalmers and her teammates brought home the Victorian Coffee Urn from their own invitational regatta held last Sunday in the Charles River Basin. It was won last year by M.I.T...
...encounter with the novelist Henry James, who asked politely if the young Bowra were still at school ("I replied that I was") to the disposition of a fellow don's remains: "When Frederic Harrison died, he left us his ashes, together with those of his wife, in an urn to be placed in the chapel. After some debate it was agreed that, as he had not been a Christian, they could not go in the chapel but might go in the ante-chapel." In this book, a very private and very special world of British scholarship...
...make sure that first impression is the right one, Harvard food services has invited two coffee-brewing experts to teach the University's cooks and serving ladies how to make a better urn of coffee...
Inside the polling station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly...