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...getting cooperation from the U.S. and Britain, who after three years are now, for a change, working together. Brit ain sent 16 hand-picked diplomats to Teheran; the mission showed none of the oldtime superciliousness, and impressed Zahedi. In London, the oil world's Big Eight-Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch Shell, Compagnie Française des Pétroles, New Jersey Standard, Socony, Texaco, Cali fornia Standard and Gulf-were secretly hammering out a tentative agreement to market Iran's oil through an international consortium. In Washington, the National Security Council directed the Attorney General to grant...
...turned to the passenger beside him and said: "We ain't going to make it." The passenger, a balding lieutenant colonel, "looked at me but didn't say anything. I was already committed, and there wasn't a damned thing I could do but keep on trying. Just before we got to the hill, I hauled back on the wheel and-over the top we skimmed." The passenger, Lieut. Colonel Dwight Eisenhower, estimated the clearance at about two feet...
...schoolteacher in Our Miss Brooks, Eve Arden is the intellectual superior of her rivals, as evidenced by the fact that she always gets a pained expression when one of her students says "ain't," which they do with dismaying regularity. But not even Eve is often seen in the classroom. Usually she cruises the high-school corridors on the heels of Bob Rockwell, a biology instructor who is impervious to the most blatant advances from Teacher Brooks. In fact, much of Miss Brooks's humor derives from remarks made innocently by Rockwell and turned into leering double entendres...
...girl shuffled slowly back to her friends, rubbing her knees. "Geez, what a fool I am. That ain't Julie...
...little steamed and demonstrated with him. So he says, T didn't call you a mope. I mean your pupils ain't woikin' right!' So I says, 'Oh, yeah? What's wrong wit' the way Rocky Marciano is woikin'?' " How was the respiration? "I didn't have none. I kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when...