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Orientally polite, India, Pakistan and Ceylon studied their fingernails, and said no thanks. Thailand, home of the River Kwai, and Malaysia, which remembers the ignominious defeat of Britain's bastion at Singapore, explained they needed engineers, not volunteers. Indonesia snarled at Ikeda's men as "cat's-paws of American imperialism," and in the Philippines the Japanese were actually pelted with stones. His good works nipped in the bud, Ikeda last week resignedly admitted he was "postponing indefinitely" any further discussion of a Japanese peace corps...
...Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly $750,000, The Fortune Teller by the belatedly discovered 17th century French master, Georges de La Tour. Redmond himself spotted this buy, but how the export license was arranged has never been revealed. When the Met wants something, it can pounce like a cat. Recently a trusted art dealer discovered a 16th century German chessboard in a country house in England, placed a transatlantic call to Rorimer; the Met snapped up the object on the basis of a photograph...
...Clawless Cat. The assembly turned out to be most reluctant to fulfill his request. Most delegates, in fact, had come to Addis Ababa convinced that Tshombe was a traitor to Africa's cause, and that the Congo's crisis was essentially an ideological battle between patriots and traitors. Not so, declared Tshombe during five days of debate, insisting that the real problem was the complete breakdown of law and order that followed the Belgian departure in 1960-which the Communists have been able to turn to their advantage...
Wisely, Tshombe avoided his usual histrionics, answered the stream of criticism with patient restraint. He was, as one delegate put it, "a cat in hell without claws." So successfully did he make his case that even such violent critics as Ghana ended up supporting him, and the foreign minister of his bitter enemy, the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, was moved to offer Tshombe his hand and praise his "African sense...
...entered the campaign too. "You know when I found out that Goldwater is square? When he called Lyndon Johnson Ivy League." And, "I'm going to vote for Johnson in November, if for no other reason than that he talks like us." Goldwater? "He's the only cat who could stand on the Israel border and get shot at from both sides...