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Taxis & Dancers. For the first time in that year. South Korea seemed to be enjoying itself. Even tough, stone-faced General Park flashed an occasional smile as he moved among his guests at a cocktail party in the Blue House, Korea's presidential palace. In Seoul, flower-bedecked streetcars and freshly painted aquamarine Jeep taxis rolled smoothly over newly paved, neon-lighted roads. The city's 1,500 youthful, homeless ragpickers had been rounded up, dressed in blue fatigue uniforms and drafted into a service corps for rehabilitation...
...must look back to our Middle Ages and their noble courts of love. But the fate of Christianity was not decided in the courts of love; it was determined by those who, looking quite objectively at the 10th century mercenaries they saw around them, resolved to bring knighthood into flower from them...
...March against Frondizi, insisted on a complete military takeover. Tempers flared, and Rauch phoned the Presidential Palace to say: "I'm going to throw him out with bullets." Poggi barricaded himself in the War Secretariat building, posting machine gunners at the windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower beds outside. Rauch called up his tanks, and the two sides rumbled ominously. After 24 tense hours, an uneasy truce was made. Both generals resigned their posts; then the Argentine navy sided with Poggi's hard-line faction to swing the balance of power. There could be little question...
...Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton. A dynastic biography of the family that knew so well How to Succeed in Business that they rose from the ghetto to an eminence from which they could tell Queen Victoria to get off their flower beds...
...Rothschilds, by Frederick Morton. A dynastic biography of the family that knew so well How to Succeed in Business that they rose from the ghetto to an eminence from which they could tell Queen Victoria to get off their flower beds...