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...Before they left they had seriously wounded six students, caused numerous minor injuries to many others, and arrested over 20 students. It is important to make clear that, despite the official accusation that the demonstration at the university, to our knowledge this was the only intrusion of any elements alien to our academic life...
strange to you, And you walk, an alien, in the streets...
...made me." From France came Georges Carpentier, a dandy of 63, who plugged not only Dempsey but his own Paris restaurant. From the Argentine came Luis Angel Firpo, 62, once the Wild Bull of the Pampas, now a lumbering giant whose dignity shone somehow through his confusion with the alien nonsense around him. Gene Tunney, anticlimactically absent, sent a message of homage to "the noblest Roman of them all." In turn, Dempsey thought that Tunney was a fine fellow and a great champion, "regardless of what anybody says." Soon afterward, Edwards danced away unscathed, and as they read the closing...
...nations of that area should lose their independence," said Ike, "if they were dominated by alien forces hostile to freedom, that would be a tragedy for the area . . . Western Europe would be endangered just as though there had been no Marshall Plan, no North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The free nations of Asia and Africa, too, would be placed in serious jeopardy. All this would have the most adverse, if not disastrous, effect upon our own nation...
More than most artists, and far more than the generality of men, Hopper lives in his eyes. He handles words precisely, but they remain alien to him. He is untroubled by his own monumental reticence. "If you could say it in words," he shrugs, "there'd be no reason to paint...