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Under the Blanket. Two decades ago, Mantsebo took over in a bitter family quarrel that sorely split the Sons of Mo-shesh, the elite 1,000-odd living descendants of the fabled 19th century ruler who fought off the Zulus, founded the Basuto nation, and asked that his people be taken "under the great Queen Victoria's blanket." Over the years, Mantsebo successfully parried each attempt to edge her out, but last week a new, more dangerous threat was on the scene: a tall, natty young Oxford student just back from England. He was Constantinus Bereng Seeiso, Mantsebo...
...presidential nomination would come on that day, he gallantly moved his ceremony forward three days. After all, everybody and his brother by this time knew that both men had for months been rushing headlong for the nomination, and the worst thing they could do would be to blanket each other's announcement headlines...
...week, but perhaps things had changed with the Gregorian calendar... or even before.... And then, too, Dilworth hadn't been out of his room in a long time to talk to anyone. Anyway, in the last analysis, he decided, it was just a matter of attitude. Tossing his cashmere blanket to one side, he made up his mind to take a chance...
Dilworth ran back to his room, undressed, and flung himself on the bed. As he peered out from his cashmere blanket, waiting for the Lowell House bells to begin, he suddenly thought he understood what had motivated Dali to paint The Last Supper...
...they would, for example, misquote President Eisenhower as referring to Nehru as the "Prime Minister of 'Bharat.' " The results often got ludicrous. When Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the U.S. as Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati" blanket by a Navajo girl. A translation of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony called the American Indians in the story "Pak-Bharatis," meaning the kind of people that used to inhabit India together...