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...were waiting for Cheddi and Janet Jagan, the Marxist husband and wife team who misrule the small, self-governing colony perched on South America's northeast coast. When the Jagans arrived, the crowd surged forward hurling coconut shells, bottles, bricks and stones at their Prime Minister. Pulling a coat over his head, Jagan fled with his wife to a car and sped away as the rioting spread. By the time police dispersed the demonstrators seven hours later, some 100 were injured, 150 arrested...
...clearly outclassed. Clay did a spot of sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
...lucky curve" -a curved ink-feeding device that prevented ink from leaking when the pen was stored upright in a user's pocket. He kept adding technical improvements, caught the public fancy with such gimmicks as the showy orange and black Duofold pen that be came the raccoon coat of the pen indus try in the 1920s, and soon was leading all the world's penmakers in sales-a distinction his company still holds. Over the years since then, his company has introduced the first pen with a metal cap, the first pen that could fly (could...
...warned drivers that any car spraying oil would be "black-flagged" instantly. "If you don't believe me," he said, "just test me"-and, sure enough, he banished Jim Hurtubise's leaky Novi on the 101st lap. But now, with Jones's Offy laying a coat of slippery oil all around the track, Fengler seemed not to notice. The flagman did: after Eddie Sachs skidded wildly on Lap 188 and smashed into the retaining wall, he grabbed a black flag and started to wave it at Jones. Fengler rushed up and told him to put it away...
Within the black granite walls of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank is a coat of arms that bears a sober motto, borrowed from Aeschylus: Esse non Videri - to be, not to seem. In line with this injunction, the family that runs the bank has become the most powerful and wealthiest in Sweden, without seeming to be the fiscal princes they...