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...little protest, neither by me, nor by any of my friends, nor (as far as one could tell) by anyone else in the country. And I think the reason was simply this: we had our watches wrong, we were mistaken as to time. We were not part of the dawn of a New Era but were the long, and I suspect often deadly, trail-out of the Old Era. We were of the prewar world, notwithstanding the giant, murderous orgasm of the war, itself terminating in the A-bombs over Japan--an apparent note of finality, of something finished...
...look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
...country's 6.2 million black villagers. In sensitive areas, the government has herded blacks into "protected villages" in order to cut off food supplies to the guerrillas. International organizations estimate that there are now half a million villagers obliged to live behind barbed wire from dusk to dawn. The tragedy is that the army often cannot differentiate between gunman and civilian-hence the high death rate...
Whether or not they are happy, it seems almost an axiom that the rapidly rich fritter few hours frivolously. They mostly abhor time-consuming activities like heading Kiwanis drives, playing golf, drinking till dawn, and being sick in bed. Though they often complain about their limited playtime, almost all the nouveaux share a drive to accumulate assets beyond any expectation of liquidating the lucre...
...foggy dawn of Nov. 17, 1968, the German-built freighter Scheersberg A (gross tonnage: 1,790 tons) chugged out of Antwerp harbor with a Liberian flag flying from its mast and 560 drums of "yellowcake"-a crude concentrate of uranium-packed beneath its decks. The ship never reached its declared destination of Genoa, Italy. Instead, after 15 days at sea it docked at the Turkish port of Iskenderun on Dec. 2, riding high in the water. Its strategic cargo-200 tons of uranium, worth $3.7 million, that could potentially be used for nuclear weapons-had vanished. The disappearance...