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There had been some inklings of a coup, including rumors that generals had begun moving troops loyal to Diem away from the capital. New York Times Correspondent David Halberstam and another correspondent received a slip of paper the night before with the message: "Please buy me one bottle of whisky at the PX." It was a prearranged signal meaning that a coup might be imminent. While Saigon was still at lunch, thousands of men in combat garb were gathering just outside the city, buckling on equipment, checking their weapons, listening to last-minute instructions for the violent overthrow...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...presence in New York City, however, made nervous wrecks of police and security officials. A couple of anti-Tito Yugoslavs managed to slip into the Waldorf-Astoria and make their way to Tito's 35th floor-where they were promptly arrested. At another point, five pickets ran into three Tito aides; in the scuffle, one of Tito's men ended up with a bruised jaw. And outside the Waldorf, six demonstrators paraded in Halloween skeleton costumes, hauling a chariot bearing skeletons and a whip-cracking man dressed as Tito. Angered, Tito canceled a reception for 1,200 guests...
...Xanadu did Kubla Khan"-At his best, Updike is able to slip unobtrusively out of light verse into something more barbed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells him that, except for the elephant and the giraffe, man holds his heart higher above the ground than any other animal...
...other person cannot. If the Council were trying to read our hearts, they should at least recognize that they may have read them incorrectly. And besides, the Council should be concerned with our constitution as presented and not with what we may or may not be thinking. This slip on the part of the Council evidently derives from a tradition of thinking in terms of races...