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Only eight times in its 181-year history did the Times of London deign to put news on Page One. Nelson's triumph at Trafalgar made it, though not Wellington's victory at Waterloo. The British general strike of 1926 got front-page treatment; not the outbreak of World War II. Winston Churchill never made the first page while he was alive; only his death put him there. Aside from those few departures from tradition, Page One has been devoted to notices and classified advertisements: secretaries looking for work, wives imploring their husbands to return, Tibetan refugees seeking...
...Parliament, Menon's speech was applauded by some members of the Congress Party's left wing and, of course, by the Communists. Indira was not present during the attack, though she heard it in her office on the parliamentary closed-circuit radio. She did not deign to reply to Menon directly: perhaps she felt that her speech to the nation on All India Radio earlier in the week had already answered her critics. "This government," she said, "is fully committed to the objectives of a socialist and democratic society. But our socialism is one that is related...
...mystery is compounded rather than made clear by the fact that he has a nonidentical twin brother-Waldo, a thin, superior fellow who spends 50 years working in public libraries around Sydney. Waldo is the intellectual type, so superior in fact that he does not deign to confide his thoughts to anyone, least of all to his dim twin. The thoughts, anyhow, are nothing much, but when Waldo retires, he will maybe get around to collating notes for his novel-Tiresias as a Youngish Man-which he keeps in mum's old dress box. Tiresias was the shaman...
...hobby. The weekly thumbnail sketches he does on three restaurants are a guide for everyone who likes to eat well when they are out on the town. To keep up to date, Claiborne often tries two different places a day. He awards up to four stars, does not even deign to write about a restaurant "if there is more than 50% wrong with...
With Washington's patience wearing thin (U.S. aid to Ghana so far: $170 million), the State Department registered its formal protest, called home U.S. Ambassador William P. Mahoney Jr. for consultations. Nkrumah would not even deign to receive the protest. Ever since the fifth attempt on his life last month, he has not dared to show his face in public; he presumably will not even return to his office until workers complete a fourth wall that he has ordered built around Flagstaff House...