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...that the Russian plan for world domination has not been given up for peaceful coexistence; showed De Gaulle that he needs to study Russian history; demonstrated that the purported will of Peter the Great still defines Russian foreign policy; convinced the world that the need for NATO still exists; woke up the U.S. and made most of its citizens grateful for the election of Nixon...
Although many of the robberies have been by people outside the dormitory--a girl in Cabot woke up one morning to find a man going through her purse--some of the girls think their fellow residents are stealing. "In certain incidents, it really looks like girls in the dorm are doing it. This is where keys would be really helpful," Elisabeth M. Sopka '70, Cabot president, said yesterday...
...M.I.T. sanctuary for John M. O'Conner ended Sunday morning shortly after 7 a.m. when military authorities accompanied by campus police woke O'Conner and placed him under arrest...
...Defense James Forrestal for fleeing in fear when a burglar held up his wife; in fact, Forrestal was elsewhere and unaware of the robbery. Not long after the accusation, Forrestal committed suicide, and many people blamed Pearson for contributing to his depression. "There were awful moments when I woke up in the night," Pearson later wrote repentantly, ''fighting back an almost paralyzing urge to join Forrestal...
...longer knowing that they walked. Land was like alcohol; he walked, and walking was like drinking. He drank it in on waking, and went all day from sundown to blackout wallowing in it until he dropped from exhaustion and total inebriation, happy and not caring if he ever woke again. Trudging all day over the flat stale beer of the stony plain, brandy of hills, mouth shut tight because it seeped in continually through eyes, ears, nose and anus, the drink of land and the never-ending gutterbout of topography, a blinding weekend of landbooze that went on for months...