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In London the first reaction was: "He's mad-stark, staring mad." Mintoff's next move was to fire off a cable to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd proposing a "truce," and urging that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervene with the Admiralty to get the dockyard firings...
William Makepeace Thackeray was the greatest prose stylist of his day, and the tallest (6 ft. 3 in.). Once, staring over the heads of a crowd, he saw himself being watched at a distance by "a strange visage" that studied him "with an expression of comical woebegoneness." Just as he...
Two-Sided Proposition. Then, while Dulles took over for 20 minutes the President sat in wan profile, self-consciously fiddling with his glasses or staring in painful attentiveness over Dulles' shoulder.
Old Dream. The dream of a new capital to replace old Rio precedes Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1822. But it is uniquely Kubitschek's accomplishment, for until he set up the government-owned Novacap corporation to do the job. Brasilia was all talk. "We must occupy...
Will the next session of Congress, after 170 years, act? One member of the committee is not sure. Said he: "We all know that it is a major problem of our time. But we seldom have a sense of urgency unless there is a real crisis staring us in the...