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That was enough for the Faubus lawyers. Chief Counsel Tom Harper, smiling and benign, stepped to the bar and began reading from scribbled notes: "The position of the respondent, Governor Faubus and his military officers, must be firm, unequivocal, unalterable: that the governor of the State of Arkansas cannot and will not concede that the U.S. in this court or anywhere else can question his discretion and judgment . . ." Harper left one door open for retreat: "This is not to say that the respondents will not comply until they can be set aside, with orders, even though they may be made...
...went AWOL on a drinking spree a few weeks ago. In the dock he sat uncomfortably, gazing dazedly at the three-judge tribunal, his onetime swagger gone. When the charge was read out, Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi summoned Girard to the witness stand and beamed at him like a benign headmaster. "You don't have to answer any questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want to say?" Girard said no, and went back to his seat. Judge Kawachi recalled him to the stand. "You have nothing to say? Can you point out facts...
Something Like Nehru. There is a world of difference between the two leaders. The Thai Premier runs a sometimes benign, sometimes malevolent dictatorship whose inner-circle corruption is legendary even in an area where corruption is taken as a matter of course. President Diem's own South Viet Nam regime has its share of corruption, and Diem has autocratic inclinations, but he is personally austere and moralistic. Pibulsonggram rarely if ever sets himself forth as a political philosopher...
Nourished by a generous soil and a benign climate, this open-toed, pastel empire last week beat with a great hum-thrumming vitality. On Wilshire Boulevard, rivet guns prattled into the fresh steel of new office buildings. The reiterated whop of the hammered nail rang out in a 6,000-house development on San Fernando farmland, in a 17,000-house subdivision in the tawny hills 40 miles to the southwest in Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous...
...fact, Philip Wright and John Noble are both pseudonyms for a benign, middle-aged (53) troubleshooter with a reassuringly ecclesiastical presence and a real-life surname that rhymes with his stock in trade: Leslie Arthur Burt Hubble, otherwise known to Fleet Street colleagues as "The Bishop...