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Embassy with invitations for the air force show. Kennan bade him take the invitations back to the Kremlin. For the sake of solidarity with the U.S., the British am bassador and the French charge d'affaires boycotted the show too. But being practical men. all three sent their air attaches to the show...
...single furnished room where she tried to make do on her husband's meager pay, family spats became more & more frequent. "We had it better back home in Yugoslavia," Mrs. Kavic complained to the neighbors. If the neighbors were not entirely convinced, Mrs. Kavic was. Last fortnight she bade her husband goodbye, took her son, boarded a plane and flew back to Belgrade...
...information," he says, "her voice dripped ice, and it was obvious she thought I was trying to duck my share of the expense. I explained I was not Frank White, but Art. Since she had known Bill White, too, this was too much for her to swallow, and she bade me a gracious good-bye and hung...
...settled down to wait and passed the time by fleecing eleven men who wandered, one by one, into the white frame bank during the robbery. Hugh, the local paper reported later, "spying a box of Mr. Noblitt's cigars . . . passed them around to the held-up depositors, and bade them smoke, later bidding them cease in their enjoyment and throw the cigars away...
During the first three days of its session, the General Assembly also: ¶ Set $14,111,574 as the sum to be allotted to home and foreign missions in 1953. ¶ Voted to end the rule requiring a one-year waiting period before a divorced person may remarry, but bade pastors assure themselves of the person's "penitence for past sin and failure." ¶ Heard Retiring Moderator Harrison Ray Anderson report that Presbyterian membership is up 25% since 1945, enrollment in Presbyterian seminaries up 220% (to 1,450) since...