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...neither the government nor the papers had yet admitted the true extent of the Israeli advances on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Apparently oblivious to the Israeli troops less than 60 miles away, Cairenes continued to crowd the cafes of New Street, where men sat sipping thick coffee and intently playing chess and backgammon. Worshipers gathered at the mosque of Zeinab for noon prayers. Peddlers, as always, hawked their roses on the streets...
Driving deeper into Syria, we passed abandoned concrete bunkers built into the sides of the hills by the Syrians and protected by blast walls nearly six inches thick. Strewn about were hundreds of empty cans of Danish beef and Lebanese cheese. A camouflaged truck, looking quite new, sat abandoned outside one of the bunkers. Our escort officer, a major in intelligence, searched the truck and came out with a manual printed in Russian...
...change. In order to be accepted as an intellectual equal, Southern women must learn to enunciate as quickly and sharply as their Northern counterparts. Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying the bantering aren't so kind. As a Confederate compatriot of mine remarked during our freshmen week, "As soon as I started talkin' I felt funny. It was at the Union and every...
Epstein, who said he saw the robbery from the window of his room in Adams House, reported that the thieves scaled the outside of the four story building, sawed through a thick copper stem, and lowered the bird to the waiting...
...embroidered to serve as wall hangings between camping trips. Triangular wool pieces can be spread out as floor covering or piled up as low seats. A lamp inflates like a balloon. A combination writing table and bulletin board can be folded down to a rectangle only three inches thick. There are dining-room sets that collapse into practically nothing, a mini-kitchen that is housed inside a unit the size of a rolling bar and even an "environmental bower," a kind of cocoon that can be set up in any room to provide quiet and privacy. There, presumably...