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...finally forced to surrender. The old clique of generals, so near defeat, was brought back to life with rapid infusions of weapons, money, men, and encouragement. Finally, after the political "balance" had been firmly re-established, the U.S. created a provisional government, set a date for elections, and withdrew its peace force to a few strategic cities around the country...
...from English banks. The independent Irish Republic has no such thing going for it; Eire has its own pound which, even though it is worth as much as Britain's, is not interchangeable. When word of the impending bank strike got around, depositors lined up for blocks, withdrew some $31 million before the vaults could swing shut on a remaining $775 million. That left some $322 million in out-of-bank circulation, just enough, by most estimates, to keep the Republic and its countrymen going...
...requested funds for a year-round Head Start program, OEO officials demanded considerable additional information, including how many men in the area had been rejected by draft boards. Inasmuch as Head Start deals with four-and five-year-olds, Friot thought this an unreasonable demand, protested to Washington. OEO withdrew the question. A more pointed criticism was leveled recently by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, which reported that the OEO is now giving the 100 poorest counties in the U.S. less anti-poverty money than the 100 richest...
...winning converts to his cult. Unsure what to do for a while after graduation, Kessler considered the law and did well in qualifying exams, but eventually turned to medicine and became a student at New York's Downstate Medical Center. Because of personality difficulties, he withdrew last November. Kessler experimented with LSD, and last month landed in the psychiatric division of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for treatment. He was there only a few days, and had been out three weeks when he was arrested...
...trilogy took Waugh at least ten years to complete, not principally for literary reasons. After 1948 and the splash success of The Loved One, his travesty on the California way of death, he progressively withdrew from the 20th century. Surrounded by six children, whom he saw only once a day "for ten, I hope awe-inspiring minutes," he lived in an 18th century country house 140 miles from London, where tie played the rural squire with a conservatism that soon became simply amniotic. He refused to drive a car, rarely answered the phone, harrumphed indignantly that the Times of London...