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...vastest audiences ever assembled for purposes of unabashed materialism, Gino Prato, the humble Bronx shoemaker, softly read aloud a cablegram from his papa in Italy, roughly translated: "It is enough. Stay where you are." Said Gino: "Because I take my daddy's advice since I was a kid, I accept it now . . . and take...
...outside of Cambridge, even in foreign countries. One student who had to be in Cairo struggled out of bed in the middle of the night to take the test at exactly the same time as his classmates in Cambridge. For even the special proctor could not have intercepted a cablegram beginning "Examination in History...
...wife were summoned before the Central Committee's powerful three-man control commission and told to prepare to defend themselves. Impetuous Vlado Dedijer listened for only two minutes, challenged the commission's charges and then stormed out of the room. He dashed off an indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew all about the Central Committee's action, and had probably told them only to wait until he got out of town...
...South: At 3 a.m. on July 22, Geneva's decision reached into Saigon's palm-shaded Palais Gialong, 400 miles south of the 17th parallel. A light burned in a first-floor office. Disillusioned and sleepless, Viet Nam's Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem opened the cablegram from Geneva and read...
Last week Perle Mesta got her walking papers. A loyal Democrat, she had submitted her resignation as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg to President Eisenhower three months ago. But still, his acceptance seemed rather hasty, Perle thought. In a cablegram asking her to represent him at the forthcoming marriage of Grand Duke Jean, heir to the crown of Luxembourg, and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Ike had added a postscript, setting April 13 as the dismissal date. "I was expecting to be fired only about June," Perle told weeping staffers. "It was a great shock, being so sudden...