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Next morning, surprisingly brisk and bright-eyed, he turned up at his office for the first time in a fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...
Wary of Brew's spectacular finishing kick, and, therefore, bent on opening up as big a lead as possible before the stretch, Reider changed his usual tactics by jumping into quick lead at the outset of the race, setting a brisk pace. Brew moved up into second place five yards behind Reider at the first big hill, as both began to pull away from the rest of the field...
OCEAN FREIGHT RATES to Europe are being pushed up for second time in twelve months by brisk shipping demand. On Feb. 1 rates will rise 10% on scheduled liners plying between U.S. and West Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, French Atlantic coast...
...five-week tour of Britain's territories in East Africa, brisk but smiling Princess Margaret was greeted on Mauritius by a fez-topped honor guard, soldiers of the Tanganyika battalion of the King's African Rifles. Later, she moved on to the spice island of Zanzibar. Censorship was instituted to tone down earthy invitations, mostly in Swahili but some in English, that are all the rage with Zanzibar's native girls, who now wear various amorous slogans written on their bright robes. By the time she drove observantly around the island, the most suggestive such bids...
...fact that the "unknowns" are on view at all is pure luck. Last spring brisk, greying Edith Halpert, 55. owner of the Downtown Gallery, went to Europe on a ten-day vacation. In the familiar busman's-holiday pattern, she took time to drop in on Rome's 62-year-old American Academy. After a look at what the young Americans were doing there, she promptly started buying their work. And concluding that they rated a show, she turned her ten-day vacation into a three-week business trip that included Florence and Paris...