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Bigger than Beaches. Sir Stafford himself pulled up stakes in Nassau last spring and moved to self-imposed exile in Spain, although he says he still plans to spend a few winter months each year at Waterloo, his home on East...
...Toward Waterloo. Ironically, says Halle, Stalin himself felt that Russia was overextended after the fait accompli that gave Moscow control over Eastern Europe. He also argued vehemently against the Yugoslavian-backed attempt to communize Greece by guerrilla warfare. Stalin asked the Yugoslavs: "Do you think that Great Britain and the U.S. - the U.S., the most powerful state in the world - will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean? Nonsense." Stalin was right: the Truman Doctrine grew out of that struggle, and Stalin's successors could never expand their empire...
...unlikely a place as Waterloo, a nice, small city of 75,000 in northeast Iowa's dairy area, was touched, too, by the madness. Waterloo's Negroes make up only 8% of the population, are well integrated into the schools, and enjoy an unemployment rate of a minimal 2.3% (well below the current national average of 4%). But trouble exploded anyway. A young Negro, in full view of a prowl car, deliberately knocked down an old white man who was sweeping the sidewalk in front of a tavern. His arrest touched off yet another 48 hours of rioting...
...Farrell centers on the all-Canadian second line, with Andre Lemieux at right wing and Ron Mark, a teammate of Farrell's at Kitchener-Waterloo and current scoring leader with nine goals, on the left...
Lemnitzer paid an unscheduled visit to another possible site only eleven miles from Brussels, but it has an unfortunate name for a military bastion-Waterloo. Should the general accept Chièvres, farmers of the region will be no happier than he. One native, whose land stands to be plowed under, muttered: "I used to throw nails on the road during the war to give the Nazis flat tires. If Chape comes I'll throw some more...