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...customer stopped at a Turkish newsstand and asked for a copy of a newspaper called Freedom. "We have no Freedom" said the news vendor. "Then," said the customer, "I'll take a copy of LIFE." "We have no LIFE either." "Ah, well," sighed the customer, "I might have known, for where there's no freedom, there can be no life...
Just outside, an Arab barber named Aouni leafs through an Egyptian picture magazine while he waits in his shabby shop for a late customer. From the bare-walled coffee shop comes the click of dice. An aged street vendor watches for hungry pilgrims with his roasted peanuts, and the Moslem proprietor of the souvenir shop next door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast...
...TURNIP VENDOR...
...alarm sounds in Lamont Library and 1,125 freshmen are left with virtually no place to study. The Yard dorms are crowded; between ten and twelve they are noisy. After Lamont, freshmen can do little more than chat with friends, wait for the milk and donuts vendor, and hope for a better day tomorrow...
Last week the companies promised to behave in a consent decree and the Justice Department dropped its attempt to split them. Union News, though still controlled by American, must "buy, display and sell magazines on the basis of [its] own interests" as a newsstand vendor. The decree also prohibits American telling publishers that it can get preferential treatment on Union newsstands...