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...Louis, a well-wisher at Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's bribery trial in 1957, turned up amid popping flashbulbs to say a showy hello. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, appearing under subpoena, marched to the defense table, pumped Jack's hand and lauded Jack as "a conscientious public servant." His Honor was echoed by such Democratic bigwigs as Comptroller Lawrence E. Gerosa, Brooklyn Borough President John Cashmore, City Council President Abe Stark and Queens Borough President John T. Clancy, who boomed "Hi, kid," as he grabbed Jack's hand...
...Plautus. This farce dates from around 200 B.C. and, except for the fact that it predates almost all of them, is totally indistinguishable from the five thousand other farces based on the carousings of a wayward son during his father's absence. It has in it the familiar wily servant and the hordes of cooperative women and it ends in the inevitable crisis precipitated by the father's unexpected return. (Don't prodigal sons in farces ever know their father's itineraries...
...colony to the new nation. Britain readily agreed. The two men quickly worked out a merger agreement, and last week the two legislatures simply combined. As the Somali Republic's Provisional President, Issa and Egal agreed on Aden Abdullah Osman, 51. Once a medical student, long a civil servant, Aden Abdullah is the closest thing Somalia has to a father of the country...
...gait, bearing, gestures or reserve." There is a seal on everything he does because he shuns habit and auto matic behavior-he is present with his whole being in whatever he is doing. The Christian yogi knows that he has gradually made his body into a faithful servant. "You order it (and it obeys) to help you to practise fully even virtues as great as faith, hope and Christian charity...
...century and a half, Shakespeare was vivisected and prettified. The biting vigor of the language was made toothless. In the original, a half-demented Macbeth rounds on a servant with...