Word: fellows
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Singers & Cynics. When at last Adenauer returned to Victoria Station to entrain for Gatwick Airport, a small crowd (among them some Germans) astounded the Chancellor and everyone else by breaking raggedly into the strains of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Cynics muttered that the singers must be Foreign Office men in disguise, but if the visit had not endeared Adenauer and the British to each other, it had at least reduced their mutual distrust. "It is from France and not West Germany," sighed the Guardian, "that Britain is now most seriously divided...
...Western or Eastern influence," says Touré, proclaiming his creed to be "Pan-African neutralism." Even if his procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
MONSIGNOR GUSTAVO TESTA, 73, born to a wealthy family in Italy's Bergamo Province, where John XXIII was a peasant boy, and close friend of the present Pope since they were fellow students in Rome. Like John, he has spent most of his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, having held posts in Austria, Germany, Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Switzerland...
...intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe. It is almost as if the Greek fellow were declining the Dover sole as guest of the author at Trinity High Table...
Poised between exhortation and rebuke, America the Vincible offers unflattering answers to these and other significant questions. Author Emmet John Hughes, chief of correspondents in Time Inc.'s Foreign News Service, and sometime (1952 campaign, 1953, and 1956 campaign) speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, clearly hopes to get his fellow citizens to face the errors of the past so that they may grapple more knowingly with the realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering...