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Worried Phillips Brooks House officials said last night that they were still unable to make contact with seven Harvard Radcliffe volunteers stranded in the riot-torn capital city of Tanganyika...
...varied in its politics as it is in its natural resources. It has one of the nation's most conservative Senators in Republican John Tower. Dallas Republican Congressman Bruce Alger is well to the right of Barry Goldwater. Democrats normally dominate state politics, but they themselves are torn between "liberals" (who nonetheless supported Republican Tower instead of a Democratic nominee from the rival faction) and "conservatives" like Lyndon Johnson and John Connally, who are not conservative...
Hochtief seems to spell success in any language. War-torn Germany was a rebuilder's dream, and Hochtief's sales rose sixteenfold from...
...course, he is quite mad. With a heart torn by Angst for the decadence of the age, and a head full of apocalyptic hope, Brown keeps waiting for men from space to land on earth and solve all our problems with their miraculous source of power and wisdom. Through a mysterious, never elucidated grapevine, he gets word that the landing may soon occur in the tiny desert town of Twelvepalms, Arizona. Quitting his job and dodging inquisitive security men, he rushes off to meet THEM...
...letters, without intending to, reveal things about the unhappy marriage. The tone becomes more strained, and "My dearest" gives way to "My dear" in 1893, following Hardy's meeting with the young Mrs. Arthur Henniker, who made the aging Hardy feel, in his own phrase, "a time-torn man" and came close to rupturing his marriage. The letters are full of mild, passing references to Emma's erratic behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary...