Word: attachable
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...empty phrases and full glass." He is the sort of man who, when Benny Goodman visits Moscow, carries his clarinet case. Those old pants he wears so proudly were bestowed on him by a British traveling salesman. "Give me a tie and some socks," Punkovsky tells a Western cultural attaché, "and I'll introduce you to some of Moscow's angry young...
...honesty of writing this clause into the constitution is exactly the honesty of putting segregation laws upon the books; it is not practical to stop covert discrimination practiced by groups like the final clubs, but it would be sad to conclude from that difficulty that Harvard should attach its name to explicit, premeditated, and flagrant exclusion based principally upon race...
...revolution came as quietly as a sunrise. General Zahreddin suspected Colonel Mohammed Hariri, chief of the southern front command, of being a top conspirator and ordered him sent out of the country as military attaché to Jordan. Hariri refused to go, and the entire southern command backed him up. An armored column moved out from the Badani mili tary camp and entered Damascus, where the tanks patrolling the streets quickly joined the rebels. Scarcely a shot was fired as Syria changed its allegiance. Tempers were so cool that President Koudsi was allowed to remain at home with his family...
...group of officers has plotted steadily for more than two years. Led by Colonel Abdel Karim Nahlawi, 39, the military malcontents were in on the coup that severed Syria's union with Egypt. Last March, they tried to take over the government, but were packed off as military attachés in Syrian embassies abroad...
...behind it? Little by little, the emerging facts pointed at a man who had been Augstein's main target for years: that baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been issued against Spiegel Editor Conrad Ahlers, who was vacationing on the Spanish coast. Even though he willingly would have returned on his own, Spanish cops...