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...Shigeru Yoshida, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) man who wears antique wing collars, has also managed to irritate and inflame almost every Japanese who counts. He flourishes his urbanity. He delivers choicely worded insults with jolly grins, and autocratic taps of his cane. He visits the zoo, where he has likened penguins and monkeys to Japanese leaders and called out well-known names at them in his high-pitched squeak. In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that...
...morning last week, the hollow-faced old aristocrat hobbled out of the prison on a cane, smiled briefly, and with his daughter at his side rode to freedom in a hired automobile. Nothing he owned at war's end fitted him now, and he wore corduroy trousers, a checked shirt, a green tie, and a cheap jacket, from which his jailers only the night before had removed the large numeral...
...flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking, it was learned that Nehru had ordered his secretary off the plane at the last minute, to make room for his personal physician. Last week, moving into one of the crises...
...great feudal families. Prince Youssoupoff's great-grandmother was Emperor Nicholas I's mistress, and his great-greatgrandfather was a lover of Catherine the Great. The old rake was so rich he had a private theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating Rasputin, the magnetic evil genius of the Czar and Czarina. On the night of Dec. 29, 1916, the prince, aged 29, lured Rasputin...
...Communism. He ostentatiously preaches humility and tolerance, but some of his colleagues call him "The Great I Am," and secretaries dissolve in tears when he flies into a thunderous rage and calls them insulting names. A brilliant, bitter, unsatisfied man, he wears expensive Savile Row suits and carries a cane, but his living habits are austere-no tobacco, no alcohol, no meat-and he sometimes seems to get along only on massive doses of phenobarbital, arrogance and black tea. "When Menon enters a room,'' an associate once said, "tension enters...