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...gain that was Robert Lovett was offset, at least in part, by the loss of one of the nation's most effective diplomats. Tired out and in bad health, wearing a black patch over the eye he injured by the barb of a salmon fly while fishing in England, 56-year-old Lewis Douglas called at the White House last week and resigned his post as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After he finished winding up his affairs in England, Lew Douglas was going home for a long and well-deserved rest...
Lilienthal could not resist one more barb. He noted with satisfaction that Hickenlooper did not suspect all those who had received emergency clearances. "Since this list included General Eisenhower," Lilienthal remarked acidly, "he will be glad it is not a blanket list...
...barb aimed less at the Arabs than at Israel's own polygamists. Among the legislators were three Yemenites. Only one of them, bearded sexagenerian Abraham Tabib, had ever practiced plural marriage, and one of his two wives had just died. Old Tabib did not take part in the Knesset debate, but his fellow Yemenite, Monogamist Zacharia Gluska, rose to defend the morals of the sect...
Alumni returning to their old fraternity houses looked in vain for the old trappings: the college pennants, no-parking signs, barefoot Petty girls and dirty shirts that had once adorned their rooms. The social chairman on coed campuses no longer had apoplexy if a pledge dated a "barb" (non-sorority girl...
...knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...