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...impetuous brilliance that drove the British out of Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court of Spain. Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done by force...
...most of his career and worked for Look from 1951 to 1961, found Cowles's offer too tempting to turn down, and last week he returned to the U.S. Many Africans were sorry to see him go and suspected that his relaxed style of diplomacy had somehow run afoul of U.S. policy. "It's hard for them to realize," says Attwood, "that the only reason I'm leaving is that I've been offered an irresistible...
...gimmicks. To American women the gimmick rapidly became a fact of life. According to some estimates, they now spend as much as $100 million a year on hairpieces, and their passion for perukes gave a lift to the wigmaking industry of Italy. Now Italy's wigmakers have run afoul of the Cold War, and they are tearing their hair...
...admirable as the proposals are, they may once again run afoul of the race question. They would be appealing enough to the Negro electorate, but the problem is to unite the Negro and the white conservative under one flag. It is questionable whether white conservatives would accept pro-Negro legislation strong enough to wean the Negroes from their near-total loyalty to the Democratic ticket in 1964. But while the Republicans choose which horn of the dilemma on which to impale themselves, they can take solace in one thought--even though the G.O.P. is the party of Thurmond and Goldwater...
...ineligibilities bill was a relatively small price to pay for prompt elections, particularly since only a few major-party candidates were likely to be affected. In fact, the reaction seemed to be exactly what Castello Branco had hoped for-a backing away from unsavory candidates who might run afoul of the bill...