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...caught a late Saturday night showing at the Carnegie Hall Cinema, where a strange intensity radiated from the audience. Nothing could divert their visual attention from the screen, no conversation was allowed to interfere with the narrative...
...presidential plane, as Kennedy flew into Pueblo, Colo., for a speech about a $170 million project to divert water from the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork rivers on the western slopes of the Rockies into the Arkansas River valley on the east, was Colorado's Democratic Senator John Carroll. A loyal Kennedy backer in Congress, Carroll faces a stiff re-election challenge this year from Republican Representative Peter Dominick. It was Carroll who introduced Kennedy to some 8,000 cheering spectators in the Pueblo High School Stadium...
...doesn't understand what it is." Talal claims that during his last hitch in the government (1960-61) Saud promised him he could proclaim a constitutional monarchy. Proclaim he did-but Saud prohibited mention of it in Saudi Arabia's press. Talal's attempts to divert Saudi Arabia's steady stream of oil money from the free-spending royal family to development projects were equally frustrating...
Behr's guide was well aware that he was no tourist, but decided that throwing him out of the country was pointless. In turn. Behr knew that the driver of their touring car was a member of the secret police. To divert the guide's attention while a photographer took pictures. Behr (in fractured German) tried to engage him in conversation. Once, when the guide mentioned that he had translated Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage, into Albanian, Behr diverted him by describing at length a meeting with Brecht in Paris in 1953. Behr found the guide...
Still another prong would consist of measures to divert land from production of crops now in oversupply-a temporary five-year "soil bank," plus a special plan for transforming wheatlands on the arid western fringes of the wheat belt into grasslands for grazing cattle...