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...Left. He flew back to Manhattan, raced to the green glass slab of the U.N. building for a 7 p.m. meeting with his staff. At 9, he was closeted with the four small-nation members (currently Ceylon, Tunisia, Argentina, Ecuador) of the eleven-man Security Council. Tunisia's dapper Mongi Slim assumed the role of floor leader in the fight for the resolution Hammarskjold wanted-one which would press the Belgians to withdraw "immediately" from Katanga but would promise Tshombe that their replacement by U.N. forces would not compromise Katanga's secession effort...
...Brussels' Laeken palace last week, Belgium's King Baudouin, raging at the news of the second U.N. resolution calling for Belgian withdrawal from the Congo, rounded on dapper Premier Gaston Eyskens. "This is the end," snapped Baudouin. "I demand your resignation...
...Boulevardier's Eye. Born July 26, 1899 in Marietta, Ga., he came to have the look of midnight on Times Square: dapper, mustachioed, faintly weary, cheeks feverishly afire with fine wine. He had the Broadway boulevardier's neon eye for his sort of news; sent in 1935 to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Lily Pons, he returned to praise not her larynx but her navel: "Who cares for a mat ter of pitch when one can gaze upon the loveliest tummy that ever graced the operatic stage...
LONDON and Paris newspaper readers have been startled in recent weeks by two well-circulated pictures that seemed to symbolize the terrors of the cold war. Hanging from the neck of a dapper U.S.A.F. major was a set of keys. Next to him was a picture of the lock they fit on the control board of a Thor missile emplacement. The starkly simple marking on the switch: War and Peace...
Canceled Flights. As news of mutiny, rape and chaos in the Congo poured into Brussels, Belgium's dapper Premier Gaston Eyskens at first shrugged it off with the remark: "These are the minor growing convulsions of a young nation." But as the first planeloads of refugees arrived from Brazzaville, thousands of former Belgian settlers demonstrated at the airport and nearly mobbed a Congolese politician who was on one of the planes. Shouting "A has les macaques! [Down with the apes!]," the settlers demanded army intervention in the Congo. So did Belgian newspapers, and La Libre Belgique cried: "It would...