Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indispensable Man. In the midst of such predatory baying and growling. King Hussein went blithely ahead with his plans to fly off in his own de Havilland Dove via Kuwait. Teheran and Istanbul to Rome, where he will pick up a car to drive to Switzerland. His brother. Crown Prince Mohammed, flew to Switzerland from Amman two weeks ago; his mother, daughter and sister and other brother are already there-leaving not one member of his immediate family in Jordan, and all affairs of his kingdom in the hands of a regency council of honorable nonentities...
...long voyage home, from Kresge to Kirkland via Weeks Bridge, humps over the Charles River and through a dark land of lawless marauders. Within the last week at least two students were set upon and robbed by packs of locals youths as they negotiated their way Houseward from the Business School parking...
Robert Merrill, 40, baritone. Before he reached the Met in 1945 via the Auditions of the Air, Brooklyn-born Bob Merrill crooned with bands on the borscht circuit, made a famous recording of The Star-Spangled Banner for Fox Movietone News (from which he got the nickname "The Star-Spangled Baritone"), pitched a few seasons of semi-pro baseball. He still sings regularly in Las Vegas nightclubs, once explained his devotion to opera: "I'd like to be a comedian, but their material wears out so fast. Me, I've got the best writers in the world writing...
Tanguy and his mother spent 18 months in a concentration camp in South France before she arranged to escape via a kind of underground railway. "Please, please don't leave me behind, Mama," begged Tanguy, and as he watched her go, he felt that "an iron hand was squeezing him inside" and that he would die of misery. ("He had not yet learned that no one ever dies of misery.") The plan was for Tanguy to follow his mother a few days later, on his ninth birthday, but the Nazis closed the escape hatch...
...unaware that local newspapers exist in Cambridge, have therefore never been informed of the amendment, much less the original ordinance. This is particularly true for new graduate students entering in September. Cambridge police privately acknowledge the unfairness of this lack of communication and feel that students should be informed via the University before being held liable for infractions. They are powerless, however, to do anything less than prosecute "violators" of the complicated ordinance...