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Some of the noisiest protesters at the U.N. of other people's freedom denied are. in their own homelands, unwilling to allow their newspapers to report fact and truth. Indonesia has reared an imposing machine, involving agencies called Paperpu, Paperda and Perperti, which comb the slightest intransigence from the press...
...wash my face and comb my hair Stop my jumpin' on daddy's chair I'll be a little angel from...
...news staff meanwhile had crammed itself into a smaller hold on 26th Street, where there was hardly enough room for its glamorous Spielmeisters to comb their hair. Office boys bustled about dressed up like nightclub waiters. The rest of NBC's first team-including Regional Reporters Sander Vanocur, Frank Mc-Gee, Merrill Mueller and, especially, John Chancellor was equally strong...
Reporter Sidey found one small comfort in traveling at Nixon's side: "At last I'm allowed to keep a pencil and a comb. It seemed Kennedy kept me stripped of both articles. In the crushes for autographs, Kennedy has never been known to have a pencil of his own." Another fine point, twangs Iowan Sidey: "It is good to get back with those who speak English. After nine months with all those Boston Irishmen, I was beginning to say 'paaak' for 'park,' and 'Americker' for 'America...
...Rampant. When the Roman legions sailed from Britain, the barbarians who took over had no use for the spacious bathhouses. For centuries Europe remained very nearly dedicated to the proposition that dirtiness is next to godliness. One medieval writer complained about the effeminacy of the Danes, who "used to comb their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez...