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...British tabloid readers, Glubb is already a legendary creature like T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"). They imagine him to be tall and slim, with steely blue eyes and commanding voice. Actually his voice is soft, his eyes watery. A World War I wound clipped off a chunk of his jaw, bent his features into a permanent smile. Among the Arabs he is known as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Chin...
...have a car, it costs quite a chunk of change to get to the ski country. If you do have a car, chances are, you might find yourself stranded along about midnight somewhere in the New Hampshire wilderness. So with an eye to the pocketbook and comfort of the ski enthusiast, the Boston and Maine Railroad has invented the Snotrain, and the Inter-Collegiate Outing Clubs Association, the Snobus...
...income of $44.5 billion, the President recommended expenditures of $39.7 billion (up $1.9 billion over last year). Major items: $11 billion for defense, $7 billion for international commitments, $6 billion for veterans, $5 billion for interest on the debt. Also included in the proposed expenditures was a $1.3 billion chunk to start the wheels rolling on the new domestic legislation the President had proposed. The expected $4.8 billion surplus, said Harry Truman firmly, should be used to reduce the towering ($256 billion) public debt...
...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...
Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger had successfully set to music everything from Greek legends (Antigone) to steam engines (Pacific 231) and sports (Rugby). Then he bit off a chunk that many a musical better-Verdi, Gounod and Tchaikovsky, among others-had broken a tooth on. He began work on an oratorio on Joan of Arc. French Poet (and onetime Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel provided a mystical, introspective text...