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From the Jamaica sun, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his wife flew into a London evening lit fitfully by a pale moon amidst scudding rain clouds. Tanned and in almost obliviously good spirits, Eden read a prepared statement before banked television cameras, as Lord Privy Seal R. A. Butler sat unsmiling and pale beside...
...Industry. With no real dispute about policy between them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports of big bribes being offered for votes, Prime Minister Hatoyama hobbled, stiff-legged and leaning on an aide's shoulder, to the microphone, and asked for "a clean election...
...greatness than of baseness; of all peoples its motives are the least suspect. Its errors have been, and are, many. Its instincts have been, and are, magnificently right. We see the small debits from day to day. Let us look rather at the huge credit through the years. Amidst all the dangers that beset us, we can be thankful that it is to this dynamic, humorous, impatient, impulsive, generous people there has passed the leadership of the world...
...What was exercising the French Foreign Minister, as he freely admitted, was the fact that the U.N., unable to act against Russia, was clamping down hard on Britain and France. Less than 24 hours before Pineau spoke, 190 Norwegian riflemen of the United Nations Emergency Force entered Port Said amidst screams of welcome from a wild-eyed Egyptian mob. The Norwegians were the thin end of a wedge with which U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold intended to winkle the reluctant British and French out of Egypt...
...opera plots. The main motivation seems to be the handsome Bandit Ernani's death wish. Before he finally kills himself in Act IV, he gets into all sorts of entanglements with the King of Spain, an old grandee, and the woman who is desired by all of them. Amidst a welter of prayers, supplications, pageants and credos, nothing occurs resembling a human relationship. Similarly, the score, composed when Verdi was 30, sounds like a not very funny satire of Verdian music that put listeners in mind of the gaudy decorations on an old merry-go-round...