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Setting a neat example for freeloading public servants who dote on hauling their relatives all over the lot at public expense, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, landed at New York's La Guardia Airport in a military plane after a flight from the capital, five minutes later greeted his wife, who flew from Washington by commercial airliner...
...French have moved in 1,000 troops, including a detachment of Moroccan goumiers (who dote on killing Tunisians), some black Senegalese, and colonial infantry with tanks. There is also a new civilian controller, a hulking 200-pounder with clear blue eyes, a granite chin and a flair for calm heroics-Jean Paul Desparnets. 41. Raised in North Africa, where his father taught Arabic, Desparnets goes around unarmed in an open jeep. He is a career civil servant of France, and has served with U.N. commissions in the U.S. and Peru. Almost daily he receives notes from the fellagha. The latest...
Gordon drew two circles on paper, one marked "Body," the other "Soul." His "whole faith" consisted in believing that everything in the "Body" circle was foul and contemptible, and that only in the "Soul" circle was there "the indwelling of God." But like most people who dote on going round in circles, Gordon was always flying off at tangents...
...Brussels, Belgium's deposed King Leopold, 52, and wife the Princess de Rethy, took a plane for Central America, where, as the official explanation went, the King will make a study of exotic jungle birds. More practical reason for the expedition: Leopold, on whom many Belgian monarchists still dote, deems it wise to be elsewhere during this April's national elections...
...yonder hill Who seems to dote...