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...breezeless afternoon last week, Mohammed Mossadegh's advisers sat around the boss's iron cot on the balcony of his yellow brick house in Teheran. They had gathered to face the facts: the country was disintegrating economically and politically. Husky Firebrand Hussein Makki spoke up: "My dear Pishva [leader], unless you control the army, you will have no security." The group agreed that the Pishva should ask the Shah for control of the army...
...excited to sleep during the rest of the night, Elizabeth kept leaving her cot to watch other nocturnal visitors at the waterhole. In the morning she breakfasted on bacon & eggs, and tossed bananas to baboons below. Just before noon, clad in apricot-colored blouse and brown slacks, Britain's Queen, unaware of her high position, left the hut in high spirits over her "tremendous experience" and vowed to come again soon with her father. "He'd love it," she said...
...main part of the building started, the original money was almost gone. Eventually, Gaudi gave up his life as a fashionable architect, sold his house and horses, put all his resources into the church-building fund. He moved into the construction yard adjoining the church, slept on a cot in a small bare room. In 1914, when all funds were exhausted, Gaudi went on a door-to-door pilgrimage through Catalonia, begged enough money to keep working. Said Gaudi philosophically: "The landlord of this building has eternity before...
Naps at the Office. During World War II he not only ran the party, but also directed Soviet tank and aircraft production. Often working around the clock for days at a time, except for short naps on a cot in his office, he sent plane production up to 40,000 a year. In March 1946 Malenkov became a full member of the Politburo, and a few months later a deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R. (all but two of the twelve Politburocrats are deputy Premiers). His power and influence swelled. Highly popular decrees revaluating the ruble and reducing prices were jointly...
...first half of the game was comparatively dull, with Dartmouth holding onto a five-point margin most of the time. In the third quarter, however, Bill Dennis cot hot sinking 11 of his 15 points, and the Crimson led, 49 to 45, at the end of the period. Lionette also scored five of his 17 points in this quarter...