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...Disturb. In the last hours of the campaign, no concern showed on the stern, creased face of the 77-year-old man who had piloted West Germany from chaos to prosperity, from defeat to respectability and alliance with the democracies of the West. He sped coolly through the last campaign stops, and then, on the day before election, retired to his garden on the banks of the Rhine and sent out orders to his party aides not to disturb him that night, nor on the next night when the election returns came...
President Perón was overjoyed with the treaty. With a promise of fuels, metals and instruments for his second Five Year Plan, he seemed to have the better of the deal. But that did not disturb the Communists. For them, the treaty was a foot in the door of Latin American trade. Politically it was a good bargain; it just might push the door wide open for a procession of Soviet agents in technicians' clothing. Explained a member of the Soviet commission: "Obviously, technicians will be required for maintenance of our equipment. There are two possible solutions...
...reputation of being a model employer. Said Le Monde: "We are told his doctrine is on the right, and his heart is on the left, exactly what is needed for a majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...
...very greatest advantage to you to have your own supporters if you wish to win unjustly; and to play otherwise in the presence of a crowd is simply to waste your money." Gamesmanship, a modern art, was not unknown then and Cardano warns against the skillful practitioner who "can disturb your equanimity by making you afraid or angry...
...years so as to play Michigan. But on October 8 Athletic Director Bingham announced that this idea had been abandoned, that the traditional game would be held as usual in 1927, and that "relations between Harvard and Princeton are excellent and I am confident that nothing will arise to disturb the amicability of the relationship...