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...Africa, Asia and Europe for four years. He used a beard, a bit of French and a cast-iron stomach to impress African tribesmen, figures he already knows the secret of getting along in Tanganyika (which he visited): "They accept you if you sit down and eat with them." Fond of Africans and their wildlife, he would like to make the corps a career...
...great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome's Palatine Hill. But his successor, Tiberius, crowned the hill with an elaborate palace, and when the Roman Empire fell, barbarian kings. Popes and nobles made their homes on the Palatine...
...gauging the strength of a business recovery, economists are fond of using the letter V to describe the pattern made on the graphs by a fast and vigorous comeback, the letter U to describe a slow one. Last week, for the first time since the 1960-61 recession began to wane, there were some cautious bets on V. On Wall Street the switch was reflected in growing confidence that the stock market is in for a new and sustained advance...
...educated (like Hussein, she never went to college)-in many ways a better match than Hussein's first wife, Queen Dina, who was taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein got to know Toni at go-cart races in Amman, and both are fond of fast cars, planes and dancing. "Toni," said a friend, "is not very anything. She's a simple, gay girl who will cha-cha-cha with him when the day's state cares are over...
...told my Democratic friends on election eve, we're going to look back on the Eisenhower years with fond remembrance. Those years of quiet but firm diplomacy and, if necessary, decisive action were great years...