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...representatives from the enclosure on a tour of the blood-spattered ruins of Compound 76, the officers marched out in orderly ranks, five abreast. As a reward for obedience and a mark of respect for their rank, Boatner ordered the machine-guns on the watchtowers turned skyward during the transfer. Only one North Korean officer stepped out of ranks; he identified himself as an antiCommunist...
...years, Bob Jones University has demonstrated that it is possible to take the enthusiasm of a religious revival, transfer it to a campus, and sustain it without missing a beat. The school was founded in 1927 when Bob Jones Sr., a veteran evangelist, decided that the "sawdust aisle" of the camp meeting was really just the beginning of a Christian education. With $25,000 in contributions and savings, he set up a college designed to be "uncompromisingly orthodox and definitely and spiritually evangelistic . . . to witness for and win people to the Lord Jesus Christ." He had 88 students...
...price of napoleons down by minting more of them, Pinay's bonds got another guaranty: the government will buy them back any time at the price, in francs, at which they were purchased. The tax-wary French were also assured that they may hold the bonds anonymously, thus transfer them at death without the inheritance tax collector hearing...
...rank amateur, Donald V. Applegate of Cochabamba, caught a 17-pounder; the current record is held by Ricardo Roberts, manager of the newspaper La Razón, who boated a 32-pound rainbow.* Packing up to transfer to a new post in the Pentagon last week, Moores vowed: "I'll be back next year. If there's not a 40-pounder there now, there'll sure be by then, and that's the boy I'm after...
...Duke of Bronte announced to a cheering throng that he was parceling out 4,500 acres of Bronte to 650 peasant families on easy-to-pay-installment plans or cheap 99-year leases. The Archbishop of Catania came down to give the church's blessing to the transfer. The local carabinieri staged a joyful military drill. The viscount, a tall, blue-eyed man of 41, happily signed the necessary papers. "This is a reward for the honest and solid work of those who for years have given their best," he said. "Simply an act of humanity...