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...Poor Serb," Slovene had moaned, "he would choke to death on a real American cake. My cousin at the Window Shop can make him something nice...
...buts," said Slovene, and the Bulgars sent their life savings to the Window Shop for a magnificent birthday cake. Slovene's cousin, Pfannkuchen, picked out the most elegant variety: a Geburtstagfestspieltorte--five rich layers, drenched in Viennese chocolate and smothered with whipped cream and hazelnuts...
...General G. Reid Doster, commanding general of the Alabama Air National Guard, as the man "in charge of tactical air operations" for the invasion. Doster, said Hutchison, has "plenty to tell." But instead of telling, Doster referred newsmen to Albert C. Persons, managing editor of the Birmingham Examiner, and cousin of retired Army Major General Wilton B. Persons, who was President Eisenhower's top legislative liaison aide...
...traditionally loyal to the King. But if the road ahead looks rough for the monarchies, it by no means is smooth for the "liberated" states, since victory most often presents only new occasions for quarrels, in keeping with the Arab proverb that says, "I and my brother against my cousin; I and my cousin against the foreigner...
...Yemen is a battle be tween the 10th century and the 20th. The mountain tribes have no officers' corps or noncoms; they simply choose their sheiks and follow them into battle. "We captured 14 field radios,'' sighed Prince Abdullah Ibn Hassan, 25, a cousin of the Imam. "But none of my men know how to use them." Nor can they use captured tanks or trucks, since none of the tribesmen know how to drive. When they attack a tank, the tribesmen first kill off the accompanying infantrymen, then often set it afire with flaming corn stalks...