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...Where Is My Son?" The pay was good. Shamburger, as a pilot, got about $2,100 a month; the others received $1,900. The four Alabamans left their homes in mid-January, telling their families that their mission was secret. In proper cloak-and-dagger style, their mail was sent and received through a general-delivery box in Chicago. Most of them returned to Birmingham only once, for a single day in March. The next month came the invasion. According to Mansfield, the four volunteered to replace exhausted Cuban pilots during the Bay of Pigs struggle, and were killed when...
...Cloak. Ashbrook began calmly. "Mr. Speaker, one of the first things that a new member of Congress learns is the so-called rule of congressional courtesy. Bluntly stated, these rules and precedents make it virtually impossible to criticize the conduct of another member of this body. These rules have probably prevented duels, fist fights and other breaches of gentlemanly conduct which would have reflected on the decorum of the House. Undoubtedly, some lives have been saved because of a remark that was never made on this floor. Outbursts of temper have probably been kept to a minimum...
...discipline and a searching investigation of its own affairs, and you have what I feel is an untenable situation. We consistently denounce waste and duplication in the executive branch of the Government. Oratory abounds concerning the proliferation of bureaucratic agencies, their expensive habits, and so forth, ad infinitum. A cloak of secrecy covers all too much of what we do in this branch of government. Do we have waste? Expensive habits? Nepotism and favoritism? If we do, under the rules of Congressional courtesy, it better be someone other than a member of Congress who discusses...
...central figure was Egyptian-born Sami Schinasi, an enterprising scoundrel who offered his services as an espionage agent to the French government. As proof of his cloak-and-dagger abilities, Schinasi genially explained that he got his start in espionage in September 1959, when he had a civilian job at the U.S. armed forces gasoline and oil depot in Fontainebleau. Needing some extra money, Schinasi had dropped into the Russian embassy in Paris and proposed that he do some moonlighting...
...future duke, who had little respect for artists, quickly found that there are artists who have little respect for dukes. In this austere portrait, the trappings of glory are absent. Even the order of the Golden Fleece is hidden beneath the cloak, and the sharp-featured face is neither benign nor particularly heroic. Goya painted exactly what he saw: a cold and contemptuous Englishman who regarded the exuberance of the Spaniards as rather poor taste...