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...cheer went up from the assembled multitude, for at that moment the king walked out on his balcony. King Chipmunk III cut a handsome figure; his paunchy cheeks and tiny nose gave character to his noble chipmunk face; his rich coat of light brown hair was universally admired; and his high-pitched, squeaky voice sent chills down the spines of all his subjects...
...product of their activity is radioactive waste that cannot be flushed or tossed away. There is low-level radioactivity, for instance, in the carcasses of laboratory mice injected with isotopes-and in the hypodermic needle that injected them, and in the laundry water that washed the laboratory coat of the technician. In 1955 the total amount of land-buried waste in the AEC's main burial grounds came to 316,000 cu. ft.; by last year that figure...
...months, like dripping from a leaky faucet, the rumors dribbled out of the Justice Department: at the next go-round between Bernard Goldfine and the Federal Government, sensation would be heaped upon scandal. For accepting Goldfine's vicuna coat, paid-up hotel bills, and other expensive gifts, onetime Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams had long since paid the price of banishment from public life. Now, went the reports, the Justice Department was prepared to lower the boom on other politicians on the gift list of the Massachusetts textile and real estate millionaire...
...simple dress of an American citizen." as decreed by Andrew Jackson in 1853. Since the order specified long trousers, which were then worn mostly by waiters, U.S. ambassadors were constantly being insulted or tipped. Formal dress for a U.S. diplomat today consists of striped pants, white tie, black coat and black waistcoat, a combination still favored by waiters...
Actually, that idea goes back to the Republic's earliest days when Ambassador Ben Franklin appeared at the Court of Versailles wearing an old coat and wielding a crab-apple stick. The name for their own current version of people-to-people diplomacy was suggested by Ambassador Galbraith. Said he: "We don't want the Showy American. We don't want the Ugly American. I am quite willing to settle for the Natural American...