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...coat or resplendent uniform were ranged along one side of the crowded chamber in Brussels' Parliament (designed for only 200 deputies, it was crammed with 1,000 guests). At the ministers' left sat the diplomatic corps, to the right were Belgium's top justices, grave in fur-trimmed gowns. Next to them were Senators and Representatives. Under a huge red velvet canopy stood the throne of Belgium, a formidable chair-newly gilded and fitted with red upholstery-which had been lugged down from the Parliament building's attic...
...tons a year as frightened cabodos refused to venture into Caiapó territory. Worse, the Indians, in addition to bows & arrows, clubs and lances, were using Winchester rifles supplied to them by renegade rubber traders, just as firewater and firearms were sold to U.S. redskins by unscrupulous fur traders. The telegram hinted that the Winchester ammunition came from the Indian Service; recently at a Service post police seized 16,000 rifle bullets...
Under its sometimes placid surface, the sea is shown to be a swirling and endless battleground: 70-ton sperm whales pitted against squids 30 feet long, fur seals preying on species of fish no man has ever seen alive. And in the midst of this bloody, ceaseless struggle, some pacifists survive a long time: in the calm Sargasso Sea, plants last for centuries...
...anew in Acapulco, Mexico, where her new (fourth) husband, ex-Bandleader Ted Stauffer, runs a nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats and wraps, two mink stoles (one white, one black), a marshmallow-size emerald ring, four wedding rings-although only three previous husbands can be accounted...
...hear Donald S. Dawson tell it, his record was as clean as the fur of a royal pastel mink. But Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright thought he detected some spots on the pelt...