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...stranger stared at him, then brought forth a diplomatic identification card. Georgescu, describing the scene later at a Washington press conference, said he noted carefully that the card was made out in the name of Cristache Zambeti, signed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, dated Nov. 5, 1951, and bore the title: "First Secretary to the Rumanian Popular Republic Legation in Washington...
...Runners bore the joyful tidings to the monastery at Namche Bazar. The message flashed to London. On coronation eve, they waked the Queen to tell...
...legislation the Storting enacted bore the humdrum title, "Law of Prices and Competition Regulations, etc.," but after reading all the small print, a Norwegian shipowner cried, "Which side of the Iron Curtain is Norway on?" The law empowers the government to control prices, profits, methods of calculating business costs, terms of delivery, ways of payment, quality of products, distribution of output, "and other controls . . . on conditions governing trade...
...story about Palacios, which, like several others, leaked out of jail last week, typified to Argentines the spirit of defiance and even gaiety with which many of Perón's recent political prisoners bore their lot. High-spirited Victoria Ocampo, sixtyish, wealthy editor of Buenos Aires' highbrow literary magazine Sur, reportedly kept her sister prisoners laughing by telling jokes, organized a drama group to put on French plays. But the hero of most of the stories was indomitable old Alfredo Palacios. When fellow prisoners speculated whether there had really been an organized anti-Perón plot...
...noted fretfully in his diary, after a 20-minute, opening-of-Parliament speech, that the crown "gave me an awful headache." After Ireland got dominion status, he observed, in the tone of an Alice-in-Wonderland monarch: "It is a bore having to change one's title, but I suppose it is inevitable...