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Leaders of the British Labor Party assembled as somberly as admirals summoned for a gold-braid court-martial. The time had come at last to deal with Aneurin Bevan, the vat-dyed black sheep, the unregenerate guerrilla of British Socialism. "He's had it this time," said one leader grimly. "Only a miracle of the fishes could save...
...Marcos' elder brother Juan arrived home in a braid-bedecked uniform from Venezuela's main military academy, and Marcos decided to become an officer too. His nearsightedness barred him from his first choice, the air force, so he took the school's two-year course in artillery, and at 18 got his first command, a battery of two venerable cannon. After a stretch of teaching at the academy, Pérez Jiménez finished his own military education with three years at the Peruvian War College in Lima. By 1945 he was a major, and-like...
Aboard his host's training ship Ghaleb, Egypt's Premier. Lieut. Colonel Gamal Nasser, chatted about cabals and kings and many things with Yugoslavia's ruddy Marshal Tito, recently returned from his state visit to the Far East and togged for the nautical occasion in his braid-laden admiral's uniform. Their conference lasted six hours while the Ghaleb steamed from Port Suez up the canal to the desert city of Ismailia...
Cinnamon-skinned girls in Dior dresses, starchy diplomats and officers sparkling with gold braid gathered one night last week in the majestic, tile-floored great hall of the Presidential Palace in Portau-Prince. The occasion: a ball in honor of Jamaica's visiting Governor Sir Hugh Foot and Lady Foot. Just at 10, the orchestra blared out a march, and Lady Foot entered the room on the arm of a huge, kingly-looking black man resplendent in white tie, tails and full decorations. His Excellency Paul Eugene Magloire (pronounced mah-glwar), President of the Republic of Haiti and host...
...have ever seen anywhere else . . . [At one party] Trujillo and his brother, who is now President of the Republic, Trujillo's son, who is a general, and numerous other members of the family were up and down the board and I hadn't seen so much gold braid and stuff since the lying-in-state of George V. But why shouldn't they put on some dog? They have a flair for it, and the Court of St. James's is no more authentic than this one . . . Trujillo's enemies say that he and members...