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...Nigerian civil servants who have been on the job for years. Many Britons will remain to help, either on permanent salary status or special contracts. Snags are bound to persist; corruption, for example, is widespread and even semirespectable among Nigerians who for years have been accustomed to giving a "dash" (bribe) in exchange for a favor from tribal chiefs or government officials...
...facing the invading forces of U.S.-backed Rebel Carlos Castillo Armas, Arbenz abandoned the presidency to make a panicky dash for safety in the Mexican embassy. He thereby won the scorn of a militant young Argentine leftist then temporarily living in Guatemala-Ernesto ("Che") Guevara. Said Che, who is now Castro's one-man brain trust: "If Jacobo Arbenz had been a man, he would have taken himself to the streets and fought...
publicity for everyone to think he was in love with all the girls." Flo got very upset about their publicity after they were married in a sudden dash to New Jersey following a Broadway matinee: "Mr. Ziegfeld was furious when he saw that the hanging of four men had pushed our wedding off the front pages." Why had Billie never joined her husband's girlie galas? "My legs were too fat. But he didn't discover that until we were married." France's favorite spinner of adult bedtime stories, Novelist Francoise Sagon, 24 and recently divorced, looked...
Among the networks, there was much internecine crowing about scoops. CBS thought it made history by its coverage of the Kennedy auto cavalcade, with shots of young Jack's fingers tapping on the dash board. NBC proudly claimed that it got the best shots of Kennedy leaving his hideaway cottage after being nominated (ABC was there, lenses akimbo, but its cameramen somehow followed a phony tip and were crouched in waiting by the back door, which never opened). Actually, little newsbeats here and there were not what mattered. More than the others, it was NBC that held the steadiest...
...girls have won the national indoor and outdoor women's championships for each of the past six years. At the trials, led by willowy Wilma Rudolph-who set a world record of 22.9 sec. in the 200-meter dash earlier this month-the Tiger-belles prompted Temple to the euphoric hope that the U.S. women might surprise the heavily favored Australians, Russians and British at Rome...