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...fought a pitched battle with 4,500 rebel palace guardsmen. The loyalists won the battle and followed up by storming Prince of Paradise Palace. As the assault began, the panicky rebels brutally machine-gunned 15 top government officials whom they had been holding as hostages in a palace anteroom...
...clear up any doubts about civilian supremacy in the new order, Strauss himself sacked one old-line general last year for refusing to wait for him in his anteroom. At a widely publicized affair, Strauss showed off his new uniforms, almost identical with what the army and Luftwaffe wore in World War II. But the jack -boots were different. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss, "these boots are fitted with democratic civilian rubber soles...
...refused to allow two Austrian nationalists to enter the disputed region to help the German-speaking population celebrate the150th anniversary of a Tyrolean uprising against Napoleon, Austria called home its ambassador to Rome. Viennese newspapers said he had been "insulted" by being forced to cool his heels in an anteroom of the Italian Foreign Office. White-stockinged Tyroleans from the Austrian side, who look so gay in the travel posters, staged a grim memorial service outside Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral...
...Neurology, which usually attracts an attendance of about 60. But the 220 seats in Fitkin Amphitheater at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital were nothing like enough: eager auditors overflowed onto the floor and sat literally at the speaker's feet; standees jammed the back of the hall, an anteroom and stairways. The word they had come to hear was entitled "Contributions of Existential Psychoanalysis." The speaker: Manhattan's Psychoanalyst Rollo May. His audience included, besides the association's hard core of psychiatrists, many members of Yale's faculties of psychiatry, psychology, philosophy and divinity, and enough...
Waiting nervously in a studio anteroom one morning, a Dotto stand-by contestant had noticed a woman contestant, already a steady winner, stealthily studying a set of notes. When the woman left the room -and left her notes behind-the stand-by grabbed them. A quick reading told the tale: someone was feeding the woman advance information. Her answers were all prepared; she could not lose. The stand-by rushed to a Dotto bigwig with the incriminating evidence and peddled his promise of silence...