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...Britain the possibility of being rid of a nagging issue outweighed the discomfort of seeing the fate of a British colony decided by two other powers, whose prescription was for the British...
...dropped three packages into the Thames estuary. The packages contained, respectively, the head, legs and torso of a used-car dealer named Stanley Setty, who had quarreled with Hume. A present-day Mack the Knife, Hume was true to his Threepenny Opera code: "If you have an enemy, get rid of him." He had stabbed Setty to death and dismembered...
...nothing would rid me of Dandruff...
...members of the Metropolitan District Commission yesterday attacked plans for the controversial Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. Commissioner Milton Cook called the newly established theatre advisory group "a way to get rid of people from local organizations," and his colleague David J. Mintz questioned the legality of the lease signed by the MDC and MeBAC...
West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, who regards much of the underground activities as "grownups playing cowboy and Indian." wants the Berlin senate to examine how to get "rid of certain undesirable activities in the twilight zone of political propaganda." The spook business is causing dissatisfaction in East Germany, too, but of a different sort. Dombrowski's boss, Major General Karl Linke, has reportedly been given the boot for letting Dombrowski get away...