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...five years almost nothing was heard of Zhukov. Occasionally a friendly word would reach Ike through relays of military men and from Western visitors to Russia. But the name Zhukov disappeared from Russian newspapers. The bronze bust, which is erected by statute in the home town of anyone who is twice Hero of the Soviet Union, did not appear at Strelkovka...
...figure is stout, her bust formidable, her manner blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
...Cadillac, and makes the 25-minute drive to his office in the Ministry of National Defense in downtown Taipei (pop. 500,000). Soldiers of the security force appear as if by magic along the route, then as magically melt away after he has passed. Past a dark bronze bust of himself on the stair landing, he walks quickly and alone to his third-floor office, where the blue velvet curtains are always drawn for security...
...yearly for the next five years. Said Smith: "I would expect to find some local problems, some temporary gluts and vacancies . . . But I don't believe, and I can't find any other construction economist who believes, that we are facing a boom-and-bust situation in housing so long as the rest of the economy remains prosperous-as it apparently will remain...
...truant officer. At twelve he knew his way around the pool halls and whorehouses of Manhattan's lower East Side. He had been hardened by a stretch in a Catholic protectory in The Bronx, where the brothers belted him with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated the sight of uniformed cops, who could spot a plainclothes dick in a subway crush, who knew how to steal "anything begun with...