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...past 56 years Egypt had never claimed them. Nasser followed up his first note with another announcing that he was sending election officials into the areas so that the inhabitants of the two areas could vote in the plebiscite ratifying the Egyptian-Syrian merger. It was a bald attempt at annexation...
Human Soil Bank. The appeal of Peanuts lies in its sophisticated melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice...
...doused her hair in sweet lemonade, and before her father, the bridegroom or any of the guests could recover their senses, shaved herself bald-which to good Buddhists signifies the renunciation of all fleshly pleasures and was, therefore, a flaming insult to the groom...
...Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. Fans wanted to come in person, but the mysterious Tibetan might have been in a state of permanent astral projection for all they could find of him. Only a few insiders knew-or thought they knew-that Rampa was really Dr. Kuan Suo, an egg-bald, bearded sage living quietly with his English wife outside Dublin. One of these insiders, pretty Mrs. John Rouse, wife of a London businessman, lives with the Kuans, serves as Dr. Kuan's secretary...
Festooned with paper streamers that almost gave the scene an air of capitalist merriment, Poland's billiard-bald Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and his pearl-neck-laced Actress-Wife Nina danced without much abandon. Their restrained revelry did little to heat up a state ball on the first night of this year's Warsaw Carnival...