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...literary logistics involved are, to put it mildly, colossal. Winds begins in the Washington of 1939, in the mind of Commander "Pug" Henry, an upright WASP of the old school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first...
...Soviet news agency Tass attacked the British action as "a relapse into the cold war," and Soviet diplomats in London were clearly stunned. The Daily Express quoted Soviet Labor Attaché Igor Kleminov as protesting: "This just can't be. I am a friend of Vic Feather's [head of the Trades Union Congress]. I was drinking whisky with him at lunchtime." Edouard Ustenko, a second secretary, was equally surprised. "Impossible," he said. "There will be nobody left." Embassy Counselor Yuri Kashlev told the newspaper: "I have just come from Manchester, a welcome by the Lord Mayor...
...Lamppost. The slight, urbane colonel, who comes from a family of landowners, trained at U.S. Army schools in Panama and the U.S. before serving as Bolivian military attaché in Washington, D.C. He has a reputation for being cool under fire. One day in 1966, when Banzer was Minister of Education in the late René Barrientos' government, an angry crowd of teachers demonstrated outside his office. "String up Banzer!" they shouted. Suddenly Banzer appeared in their midst. "I will be waiting near the lamppost to see who is the brave one who is going to hang...
...mouse game between Congress and the President. In August 1970 inflation was climbing and job rolls were shrinking. Anxious about the economy, Wright Patman, the aged and wily chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, decided to put the President on the spot. He maneuvered to attach the Economic Stabilization Act with its wage and price controls as an amendment to a bill extending the life of the Defense Production Act, which was about to expire. The provision was approved by both Democrat-controlled houses of Congress...
Bennett said the Corporation objected in particular to the part of the proposal which would have required management to attach the information in question to the annual shareholders' report...