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...idea that he was a woman-chasing, whisky-drinking revolutionary who strapped his airplane to his backside and amused himself, on taxpayers' gasoline, from one end of the country to the other. Even in World War II the comic strips knew him best for the open leather flight jacket and the "50-mission" cap perched precariously on the back of his head...
...Eisenhower, who usually wears only three ribbons on his jacket (Army & Navy, D.S.M.s and the Legion of Merit), holds 43 foreign decorations, e.g., Britain's Order of Merit (limited to 24 living holders), France's Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, Russia's topflight Order of Suvorov, Poland's Cross of Grunwald, Tunisia's Grand Cordon of Nishan Iftikar. Last week France awarded him the Médaille Militaire, the highest French military decoration...
...jacket of the new volume includes quotes from Robert H. Pfeiffer, lecturer on Semitic Languages and curator of the Peabody Museum, who commented on the interesting and revolutionary nature of the book. Nevertheles, Pfeiffer stated yesterday. "I disagree completely with his conclusions...
...suburban estate, Kuquine, he told his pretty wife Marta that he was tired, and went to bed. Around 2 a.m., four officers called for him. He dressed in the dark; there was a shaky laugh when a nervous aide who thought he was holding the chief's jacket tried to help him slip his arms into a pair of trousers. The conspirators climbed into a car and headed for Camp Columbia. At the gate, the driver leaned out and said: "It's Batista! Are you with us?" The sentry joined the revolt on the spot...
...flashier school chum, he has been writing heavy technical works on philosophy ( The Structure of Behavior, The Phenomenology of Perception). In the existentialist cafés, Merleau-Ponty's appointment was greeted with dismay, "Ça alors," protested a young woman in blue denims and a wind jacket, "you think you are in the avant-garde and then one day, presto, you are in the rear guard...