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Commanding the flight from the lead plane was 50-year-old Major General Archie J. Old Jr., who coordinated the trip, kept in constant radio contact direct with LeMay's headquarters in Omaha. Texas-born Archie Old, like Curt LeMay, is no West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid...
...questions tumbled out, Anthony Eden lounged at the front bench, his long, striped-trousered legs languidly propped up on the table, his eyes on the ceiling. Occasionally he swung to his feet to give a curt, evasive answer. After an hour and 40 minutes, Speaker William Morrison recessed the debate. The Labor Party went into caucus, its members in the grip of violent anger at Eden-a man whom in international affairs they had hitherto trusted. "Comrades," declared Hugh Gaitskell, "we must attack the operation with all the strength...
Michael Karpovich, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, said that he found it "difficult to believe that the Soviet government will use force," since such action would be, "too clear a demonstration that they really have not renounced Stalin...
Family Affair. Two years ago Zik became the Eastern Region's first Premier. Still simmering over an old experience in a British bank in Nigeria ("Not only did the manager keep me standing in his office for some minutes, but he was curt and condescending"), Zik used his new power to transfer $5,600,000 in government funds into a hitherto modest native bank, the African Continental. The catch was that the African Continental Bank had been founded by Zik himself, and, although he had resigned as a director upon becoming Premier, he and an organization called Zik Enterprises...
...plays a character close to his own-which may actually be more difficult than hiding behind King Lear's beard or Pistol's putty nose. Harrison and Higgins are both aggressively British and crisply upper crust. Both are absorbed in their work and in themselves. Both are curt, clear, complacent. Both can be beastly and charming at the same time. Or, as Rex puts it: "I always find it less difficult than some actors to be irascible without being unpleasant. I've taken over some of Higgins and he's taken over some...