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...this thing, I'll get you all the talent you want.' " Frankie was as good as his word, thereupon unreeled a cast of characters that would stretch from Mocambo to Vegas. It includes Clansmen and Clans-women Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Curtis, Shirley Mac-Laine. The big show, said Sinatra, has the approval of "the gang in Washington, including Jack...
...Mac's Mount. What chiefly outraged the M.P.s was the fact that the new For eign Secretary was a peer, and therefore could not be cross-examined in the House of Commons. "Utterly retrograde," cried Tory Backbencher Gerald Nabarro. "Effrontery," shouted members of the Conservative M.P.s Foreign Policy Committee. Though there is no written law requiring a Foreign Secretary (or a Prime Minister for that matter) to sit in Commons, M.P.s have taken it pretty much for granted that nowadays such ministers are answerable only to them. Not since before World War II, when the late Lord Halifax served...
...humor. Despite the fact that Fidel Castro has had him declared a "native-born Cuban," Che knows that Cubans still regard him as a foreigner, and has so far realistically set the limit of his personal ambition accordingly. Even his name (pronounced Chay) comes from the Argentine equivalent of "Mac...
...name all Japan once honored. For Douglas MacArthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo and the principal architect of present-day U.S. policy toward Japan, Kishi's retreat was an unhappy confirmation of his own growing doubts about the Ike visit. With a mixture of relief and bitter regret, Mac-Arthur phoned the news to the Eisenhower party in Manila...
...summoned two Liberal Democratic chieftains, and got no comfort from them. At 4 o'clock, Kishi told the assembled Cabinet he had decided to ask Eisenhower to postpone his visit to Japan. In obvious relief, the Cabinet endorsed his decision, and it was forwarded to U.S. Ambassador Douglas Mac-Arthur...