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...Gomulka, the man you sent to jail." The Russians' coup de théâtre flopped because one of Gomulka's supporters had taken the precaution of arming the workers of the Zeran works, and another, the new secret police boss, had put a discreet cordon of tanks around the parliament house and changed the guard at Radio Warsaw. After listening patiently to Khrushchev's harangue, Gomulka said quietly: "Now it is my turn. I don't want to speak here, but in a radio studio. Tonight I am going to tell the people the truth...
...newborn baby was left one summer's night at the gate of a little Franciscan cloister that sat on the top of a high hill in the land of Spain. "It's a baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid as Mother Earth, took charge of the situation. The child was crying. Brother Thomas dipped a cloth...
...most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular admiral, while Charles became a fairly decent general. But John-who had already...
...Discreet Career Girl. O-Koi, second of the geishas, tailored her kimono-clad ambitions along career-woman lines. Her first lover was a stockbroker, her only husband a famed Kabuki actor who later deserted her. After two leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
...woman. But whether she prove phoenix or fossil, the geisha has found a compassionate historian in Author Yamata, a writer who knows how to highlight her heroines against the backdrop of theatrical restaurants and teahouses through whose sliding bamboo panels these sad gay ladies of Japan move to their discreet, historic and bittersweet rendezvous...