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...time the posters faded from the walls, Jefferson retreated to the ages, President Soekarno began to bald, and Indonesia (which never had an election or ratified its constitution) began to splinter. Last week, upon Indonesia's bright-eyed women still fighting for monogamy, fell the crudest blow of all. They learned that their idol, President Soekarno, had secretly taken a second wife...
...Geus was a good doctor, but he also earned the reputation of being crazy. When he came bouncing onto the dike-enclosed farming island on a motorcycle, to replace the old doctor who had died, the poor peasants refused to take him seriously. Short, bald, muscular and hairy-chested, he looked like a good-natured, grinning ape. Unlike his dapper predecessor, he wore the wooden shoes and coarse clothing of his patients. He cursed, he got into fist fights, and he loved his gin. When he showed up to deliver a baby on his first case, he even...
...Havana, white-bearded Author Ernest Hemingway strode into the public eye with his head cropped bald (so that scalp wounds he picked up in his famed African plane crash will heal more quickly), was officially decorated on his 55th birthday with the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes-the highest honor Cuba can bestow upon a foreigner. Later Papa displayed the decoration for wife Mary and friend Jaime Bofill, launched on his 56th year in a warm and sentimental glow...
...have only two." Unfortunately, the Navy can do little about its loss. Tecumseh's bronze hide is still proof against the weather and the pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced him to retire...
There was loud applause as the bald minority leader went back to his seat on the Democratic side of the chamber. The Democrats followed statesmanlike leadership. When the final vote had been tallied, 141 Democrats, 118 Republicans and one Independent (Ohio's Frazier Reams) were on record as favoring a $3,368,608,000 mutual-security program (only $109 million was cut from the original bill). Now the bill goes to the Senate, where the forecast is the same as it was in the House: trouble...