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...crew of worthless pickthanks who steal his cigars and tell him what he wants to hear. After some months of "conversing with his buttons," he begins to get peculiar notions. One day he buys a bust of Napoleon and another of Louis Napoleon. Pretty soon he has his beard barbered like Louis Napoleon's. "Wait," he murmurs to Sophia, "I shall still make you Empress." His cronies become marshals, his hens pheasants. In the end, both reason and money are exhausted. Rubião crowns himself Emperor: "He picked up nothing and encircled his head with it . . . 'Take...
...hours before the voting began, Republican leaders in the House would not have given a wet wheat beard for the Benson farm program's chances. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, who has been the Administration's strong right arm in the House, conceded to friends that he was licked. Then the House noisily pulled the biggest surprise of the 83rd Congress by voting down a continuation of rigid 90% of parity price supports on the basic crops. It approved, instead, a system of flexible supports pegged on 82½ to 90% of parity. This was a compromise...
...Reprimanded, he shot back: "We are Spanish Communists, not Russians." He was read out of the party. Even his own Communist daughter attacked him over Radio Moscow. A few months ago, learning that a fellow ex-Communist had been tracked down and killed by Red assassins, Comorera grew a beard and fled Toulouse for Paris. Then he decided that a return to his homeland was a lesser risk than staying in France, and he had himself and his wife smuggled across the Pyrenees...
...White House, beforehand, he chatted with a group of war correspondents emplaning on a return trip to the beaches. He joshed the Chicago Tribune's spade-bearded Jack Thompson, whose whiskers are greying now: "There was a lot more brown in that beard." Like any old soldier, he talked of the war and reiterated the old unanswerable question: What did these sacrifices mean? Leaning against his desk, he said earnestly: "The people who know war, those that experienced it . . . I believe we are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world. I believe those people that talk about...
...through the seemingly impenetrable Sierra, Gheerbrant needed the help of local Indians. His principle was nonviolence, his method diplomacy. Sometimes negotiations began with a bow and arrow aimed at a white man's heart and ended with Gheerbrant allowing savages to tug his beard and strip him of his possessions. But his supreme instrument of diplomacy was a Mozart symphony. Military marches left the Indians impassive; Louis Armstrong's trumpeting failed to send them; but Mozart always soothed the savage breast. "Such music." Gheerbrant writes, "did not . . . clamp down a mask of fear on [their] faces ... It opened...