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...been driven to despair by the chaotic rule of affable President Sukarno. From Sumatra to the Celebes, more than 100,000 men flocked to the rebel colors. Demanding more autonomy for the outer islands and prompt suppression of Indonesia's potent Communist Party, the rebels initially got cloak-and-dagger assistance from Washington's ubiquitous C.I.A...
...appointment of a professional oilman to the FPC. ("It would be like asking Mickey Mantle to umpire Yankee games.") The Senate indulgently let him have his say, and even helped him out in moments of distress. When Proxmire needed to go to the bathroom or to the Democratic cloak room for a quick lunch of cottage cheese, his colleagues held the floor for him, swapping jokes to pass the time. In turn, Bill Proxmire graciously yielded the floor from time to time, to permit snippets of debate on urgent legislation. In the end. the Senate confirmed O'Connor...
Steely Glint. In his new job General Taylor wears sober civilian suits, but they do nothing to cloak the commanding air of a professional soldier. Though he is doing his best to fit in with the freewheeling White House staffers-as non-military a group as any college faculty-the first time one of the resident eggheads greeted Taylor with an airy "Good morning, Max," the glint of steel flashed in the general's eye. But Taylor managed to restrain his celebrated talent for chewing out an offender and smiled a casual hello...
...like to jump," Taylor once confessed frankly, "but I like to be with people who like to jump." Taylor went into action with the 82nd in Africa and Sicily, soon earned a reputation as a tough, resourceful officer and was singled out for one of the most dramatic cloak-and-dagger missions...
...added as key terms that would "unlock" Leaves of Grass the words modernness, which could stand today, and ensemble, a word which today seems to belong to the cloak-and-suit trade, but which Walt intended to mean "the idea of Totality, of the All-successful, final certainties of each individual man, as well as the world he inhabits." Many people, to their peril, have taken the flatulent old Faust at his own measure. Were it not for the genius of Leaves of Grass, this sort of thing would have been buried mercifully for the flapdoodle it is. But then...