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Billeted in Ottawa's Lord Elgin Hotel with a fellow Soviet delegate, Klotchko waited until his roommate was asleep, collected only his razor and toothbrush, and slipped out into the deserted streets. Klotchko quickly found himself talking to the Mounties. By 8:30 in the morning, Klotchko's appeal for political asylum was on Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's desk, and by 9:30 the Cabinet met to approve...
...Bilk, king of the trad men, is a chap with a name that has probably caused Charles Dickens to stir in his grave, tap his foot and smile. A 32-year-old former Somersetshire blacksmith. Bilk acquired his skills on the clarinet in an army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year...
...over the Gila River Valley, and the big Boeing 707 jetliner was just 16 minutes out of El Paso on a routine Continental Airlines run from Los Angeles to Houston. In the darkened cabin, most of the passengers dozed in their seats. "I was about half asleep," recalls Air Force Recruit Robert Byington, "when I saw one of the stewardesses being pushed up the aisle by a young guy about 17." Byington did not see the revolver pressed against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around...
...that end, said Miller, "the most important institution which can ever exist in this state or nation is the church of Jesus Christ-active, not asleep; courageous, not intimidated; vocal, not silent on sensitive matters; concerned with the whole of man's life-personal, family, business, community, national...
Eichmann's point quickly became evident, and he repeated it so often in such bureaucratese that some of the spectators literally fell asleep: he had been "only a small cog" with no real authority in the Nazi machine. "I could not anticipate. I could not influence. My status was too modest," he said. "I was only dealing with train timetables and technical aspects of evacuation transports." In this small role, rationalized Eichmann, he actually helped the Jews: "It cannot be denied that this orderliness was to some extent to the benefit of the people who were deported...