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...American Farm Bureau Federation to talk about farm problems and policy. Just before he spoke, the "Deltones," a girls' trio from Delta County, Utah, sang "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." But Ezra Taft Benson made no effort to pose as a man with a snowy white beard and a bag full of gifts...
...pupils in his Paris school, Pierre Larousse was a "small, dumpy man, his beard unkempt, his eyes sparkling-an introverted, sinister plodder strongly suspected of subversive ideas." But subversive or not, Pierre Larousse had one idea for which France has long been grateful. "I want," he announced in 1863, "to teach everyone everything...
...equatorial South, on the left bank of the White Nile, the King of the Shilluks sat under a mango tree, wearing a white sash and stroking his tufted beard. His Majesty's illiterate subjects kissed his black feet and asked: "For whom shall we vote?" The King said: "Ask the white...
...privates who dubbed the Army of the Potomac "Grant's army" after the day in March 1864 when the man with the bristly red beard and black sugarloaf hat came to visit the army's nominal commander, Meade. Grant was something of a mystery to this army. His breakfast was a cucumber sliced in vinegar and a cup of coffee; if he ate meat, it had to be cooked black, and he never started the daily round without two dozen cigars stowed in his pockets...
...Council will not be allowed to specify and particular college when discussing aid. But Neil H. McElroy '35, president of Procter and Gamble, who was chosen because of his work in Harvard fund drives, is on the beard of directors...