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...closest calls came long before the war, when his two-seater pursuit plane caught fire during a training flight in Florida. The sergeant-observer was slow to hit the silk; by the time Chidlaw helped him out and jumped himself, the plane was so low that his chute barely had time to open. He hit hard, broke a leg. He still puts in a lot of time in the air. To check up on his command last year, he logged 739 flying hours in his carpeted, wood-paneled command C-54-enough mileage to cross the U.S. coast-to-coast...
...seeking two worlds-one where it can sell its sur pluses freely, and another where no other country can sell farm products freely to it." Said an angry Japanese businessman: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists, then they turn around and raise their duties on silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
...outside eyes, Café Filho is a careful dresser with a preference for dark blue pin-stripe suits, grey ties and white silk shirts. At home he likes to lounge around in pajamas, reading, sipping coffee and chain-smoking strong Brazilian cigarettes (Hollywoods). Younger-looking than most men of his age, he still takes an occasional early-morning dip in the Atlantic surf on Copacabana beach. Despite his extensive reading, he is less educated, less cultured than Vargas was-but he promises to make a better President...
...teau de l'Horizon on the lines of the Windsor establishment. Prince Ali's maids, who for years had worn gay summer prints and went bare-legged except for formal occasions, were measured for crisp black-and-white uniforms. Rita made them all wear black silk stockings and high-heeled black leather shoes . . . One day when Prince Ali and I were exercising together-we used to throw to each other a pint-sized Indian boy who enjoyed every moment of it-my boss said: 'I know this is all a lot of ruddy nonsense, Daffy...
...attack every woman I meet [to] form my character") was softened by the timid lover ("With a little more assurance or a little less love, I would perhaps have been sublime and would have had her"). The fluttering social butterfly ("I was brilliant ... I was wearing a waistcoat, silk breeches and black stockings, with a cinnamon-bronze coat, a very well arranged cravat, a superb frill . . . My whole soul appeared") was brought to earth by the lucid critic ("I realize that the works I've written stink...