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...will be an "announcement" next month, the Italian press insisted that the marriage would be "impossible." Epoca cried: "Let's forget state complications. He is a sad and tired man, 20 years older than she. He lives in a dull and distant capital, on the edge of a backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran...
Authority struck back with a fiendish plan. Trains that mutineers refused to leave were rerouted to other destinations, leaving the rebels miles from home. Twelve sit-down rebels found that their train was going backward toward its point of origin. Huffed Brian Harbour, operations chief of London Transport: "We can't stand for chaos any longer. A few people refusing to leave a train can delay thousands." Detrainment, as he called the ejection of passengers, could not be avoided.* All this was shocking news to Londoners, long proud of the Underground's superiority to the New York subway...
...highly newsworthy visitor, Mikoyan deserved extensive coverage. But most papers, in giving him this due, leaned over backward to preserve the "objectivity" in which the U.S. press takes inordinate pride. Most stories ran as straightforward accounts of the rubberneck tour, without qualifications, without reservations, without showing cautious awareness of the other Mikoyan, the calculating Russian emissary, who followed Tourist Mikoyan everywhere he went. Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, who spent six years in Moscow watching the Soviet's ways, filed Baedeker-like stories in which both the real Mikoyan and Salisbury's Moscow wisdom were invisible...
...omission of phrenology from the Harvard curriculum is indeed unfortunate, for it is a part of the great American cultural heritage, what Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has called "the intellectual backwash of a backward frontier economy." Surely such stuff is fit meat for the intellectual appetites of hungry Harvard students...
...visit two years ago. Time and again the action jolted the audience to attention, most notably during the Marx Brothers-styled high jinks of the three ministers-Ping, Pang and Pong-and in the final act when the hero, Calaf, took Princess Turandot in his arms and arched her backward in one of the most torrid embraces ever seen on an opera stage...