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...gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime Minister...
...went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa, who was 30 miles away at Deauville with Fiancee Bettina, watching his nag Shut Up dog it home fourth...
...conference they had practically convinced themselves that there is really no problem. Summed up the University of Chicago's Dr. Stephen Rothman: "I do not know of a single instance where a man's social happiness or professional advancement has been hindered because of thinning or absent hair. Think of Julius Caesar and President Eisenhower...
...reckless policies prevailed. (Zhukov instead privately tipped off Khrushchev that a plot was brewing.) Then Malenkov, Molotov or Kaganovich (one or all three) demanded a meeting of the Presidium. Khrushchev is said to have agreed, but when the Presidium met on June 17 or 19, three full members were absent. The opposition challenged Khrushchev's right to preside, and on a vote he was denied the chair. It was taken by Bulganin. Then the opposition launched an attack on Khrushchev's policies, charging him with Trotskyist and rightist peasant deviations. Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that...
Back to the committee room went Brooks Hays, convinced that his first vote was wrong. He moved for reconsideration, got new help from members who had been absent from the first meeting, and emerged with a committee vote recommending the development fund (already approved by the Senate) to the full House...