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...small-bore eyes" in the drama of desegregation. The quote used was only in connection with lawmaking...
When his white Ilyushin jet bore him into Paris a day earlier than he had originally planned. Nikita appeared to be in a comparatively calm mood. At the country residence of Soviet Ambassador to Paris Sergei Vinogradov, he fed bread crumbs to the swans, even borrowed the scythe of a neighboring farmer and tried his hand at making hay. "Mr. Khrushchev has a fair cutting motion," reported the farmer, "but since he is a stout gentleman, his stomach interfered with his swing...
Fifteen minutes later a U.S. Navy helicopter arrived, disgorged a squad of Americans in civilian clothes. For the first time the pilot opened his canopy, called, "I'm O.K.," and climbed out. The Japanese noted that he carried a pistol at his waist, that his flight suit bore no markings. Moments later more U.S. civilians arrived, drew pistols and ordered the Japanese away from the plane. But not before Eiichiro Sekigawa, editor of Tokyo's Air Views, got a meticulous description...
...counts, the ghosts were charged with writing or offering to write papers and theses, some for Ph.D. candidates. The fees: $25 to $3,000. It was no small-bore haunting. According to New York District Attorney Frank Hogan, the ghosts served "hundreds" of other clients, who live beyond his jurisdiction...
Biggest and best exhibit was called simply Allegory. It featured an umbrella, and a bar mirror to which had been affixed a cascade of crumpled tin. Bar mirrors are a bore, as filled with eyes sometimes as tapioca and they have a blandly unpleasant way of catching the drinker unawares. The tin in Allegory made a witty tasteful substitute for reflection. Esthetically, the umbrella, too, was a brilliant stroke, its sharply precise form and cloth texture in telling contrast to the gleaming glass and crumpled metal