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...judge by the Suez crisis, if Hammarskjold succeeds in damping down the Lebanese and Jordanian crises enough to warrant U.S. and British withdrawal, Arab poets a year hence will be writing songs in praise of the heroic Lebanese and Jordanian patriots who fearlessly drove the Western imperialists into...
...recounts Read, a Canadian sheriff who lost a culprit in a bog swore out a warrant, explaining that the offender "non est comeatibus in swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...
...year peace talks had bogged down on the issue of apostolic succession, the Anglican doctrine which declares that the church's ministry is derived from the apostles by a continuing mystic transmission of spiritual authority through the episcopacy. "The doctrine of historic episcopacy is contrary to the plain warrant of Scripture," cried Theologian C. Kingsley Barrett of Durham University. "We must say no to it in God's name...
...winner of each match must file the results at Grays 1. Players are cautioned that failure to comply with this rule will warrant dismissal from the tournament. Students must arrange hours in the early rounds and bring a new can of tennis balls to their first match. Scores will be posted in Grays Hall and the results will be published in the Summer News...
Lawbones. In Brawley, Calif., after helping Mexican field hands prepare legal action against a farm labor camp for practice of medicine without a license, Benjamin Yellen, M.D., was served with a warrant for practicing law without a license...