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...bloody mob riots that result in the burning of Shepheard's Hotel lead Major Khaled and a few other hothead officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find an Egyptian ten times better than...
...same time, Sutherland termed the decision to omit a revision of the companion work, a digest of court cases on Communism, a significant failure. If anything, the digest of cases becomes obsolete quicker than the bibliography, he said...
...least of the good graces attending his life is his sister Elizabeth. In her account of his youth, he seems a little like Frank Merriwell. Adlai could swim across large lakes (two miles in the creditable time of 1 hr. 16 min. 21 sec.), climb a Swiss mountain quicker than almost anyone (so the guide said), and play the mandolin. In her diary his sister recorded: "Today the girls [at camp] saw Adlai!! Tonight one of the girls fainted...
...quicker way is for the Deputies themselves at some point to decide that they are hopelessly divided, vote their immediate dissolution, and go back to the country for new elections. "But this," as the London Economist pointed out, "would require an improbable degree of self-abnegation"-and unless this divided Assembly could first agree on some useful set of electoral reforms, 22 million Frenchmen would in all likelihood only say again what they said last week...
...sympathetic ear but not full satisfaction. U.S. Secretary Dulles said flatly that the West could never join in a Middle East arms race, and he warned Sharett that in such a competition, Israel, with its 1.7 million would reach its "absorption point" quicker than the Arabs, with their 50 million. In such a competition the Arabs might well find the cohesion they now lack, and might become increasingly dependent on the Russians. In this view the Big Three foreign ministers were unanimous. Successively they reaffirmed to Sharett the 1950 guarantee by which the U.S., Britain and France promise...