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...agreed in lambasting the return of Tammany Hall's Hulan Jack to his job as Manhattan Borough president-from which he had suspended himself two months before. Of Manhattan Borough's 1,800,000 resident citizens, the only people who seemed happy were Jack himself and a clutch of political underlings who greeted him in his office with spring blossoms, cheers and a big sign: WELCOME BACK, MR. PRESIDENT. Said Hulan Jack: "I'm just bubbling over with happiness...
...visible in the arrest of scores of teen-age Hungarians-many of whom had left Hungary as children, had no politics now, and added gaiety to the exile gathering by singing songs and dancing the czardas. But no brand of logic served to explain the internment of a clutch of former Spanish Loyalists for whom the only important enemy remains Generalissimo Franco. "I am absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house...
...business conditions, and wait for the tribesmen on their way down from the hills with their annual offering of confiture (jam), the local nickname for opium. Most of the boys have a Mediterranean origin: Couscous, a wiry North African; Carlo the Corsican; a Eurasian called Moitie Gnakouey; and a clutch of characters of vaguely French antecedents-Petit Pere, La Seche Noire (the Black Cigarette), Le Gorille Gris (the Grey Gorilla...
...threaded through the Andes ("with the Christ of the Andes above my head"). One day he set the plane down in the ocean about 50 miles off the coast of Ecuador ("I got very thirsty"). But when he tried to handcrank his engine for a takeoff, the inertial starter clutch failed. "There I was," he says, "drifting to Honolulu. I cranked myself to exhaustion." After long minutes of finger drumming, Quesada suddenly recalled an old aviator's superstition. He went back and urinated on the tail. Naturally, the engine started up with the next turn of the crank...
...fees are $500 for Americans (500 shillings for Britons because they are "poorer"), plus a yearly subscription of $60. Current membership includes Sir Winston Churchill, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, and the ninth Earl of Portsmouth; U.S. Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson, Everett M. Dirksen and John McCormack, and a clutch of film notables ranging from Clark Gable and John Wayne to Joan Crawford and Walt Disney. There are also a lot of nameless people with money who, as Gable put it, "are so far down the list they seem to have got in just to do the cleaning." Possibly Profitable...