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While the volunteers are in Birmingham, they will not have the same freedoms as they would have if they were still in Cambridge. In an effort to avoid any sort of provocation, the students have been asked to refrain from walking in integrated groups, even though all the Harvard students will be living together at Miles College. Clifton said he hopes that living together will not prove inflammatory...
...before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die-they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried...
...sounded like a familiar refrain. But McNamara and his party were genuinely impressed with Khanh, returned convinced that he deserves wholehearted U.S. support. In Saigon, Khanh was at least trying to consolidate his leadership in ways big and small, and with a lot of brave talk. He dispatched his comely wife on visits to Vietnamese and American military hospitals, pleased Mekong Delta poultry farmers by halving the export tax on ducks, ordered the late President Diem's old palace converted into an arts and science museum. The little Premier also announced a tightening up of the influence-riddled draft...
Once again, the nonpermanent members of the Council came to the rescue. They produced a new resolution requiring all member states to "refrain from any action or threat of action likely to worsen the situation," and "requested" that U Thant press on with his peacekeeping efforts. Next day there was a breakthrough on the troop bottleneck. Sweden planned to send in an advance force of several hundred men from its contingent with the U.N. force in Gaza. Canada dispatched a small group of officers as a "reconnaissance mission." Another 1,000 Canadian troops prepared to take off for Nicosia this...
...musiquette combined an ironic exposition of human foibles with a lusty, busty display of wenches who did not earn their keep by dancing. Offenbach, after all, was addressing a culture whose upper class was embarked on a carnival that lasted a whole generation. He had the good sense to refrain from homilies...