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Lindsay: "We have been raped and we're accused of prostitution. I have never seen any leadership so determined to exact the last pound of flesh from its opponents...
...this group is the best of the lot. The long list of superlatives used to describe the lights has nearly been exhausted, but the fact remains that Gladstone has assembled one of the finest 150-pound crews ever...
...sensation during '21's junior year. They graduated into a world of raccoon coats and Warren Harding, crazy prosperity followed by a dizzying bust. During the final weeks of their spring reading period, Sacco and Vanzetti endured their first trial. In 1921, Lenin announced his New Economic Policy, Ezra Pound's first four cantos were published, and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie hit the boards. Radio was catching...
...reports say that pilots smuggle vast quantities to Saigon and Hong Kong in their spare time. It is also reported that pilots smuggle gold-which is in great abundance in Laos-from Vientiane to Hong Kong. The legal price differential is so great that if you buy a half-pound of gold in Laos, pay full duties on it, and sell it legally in Saigon you can pay for the round-trip airfare from Vientiane...
...concurred that some accommodation was manageable on granting access to New Zealand butter and cheese; they instructed their negotiators in Brussels to work out details. Regarding sterling, Pompidou agreed to consider Heath's request that the inevitably complex talks on the role of the British pound be kept outside the general EEC discussions so that the entry negotiations would not be slowed down...