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...Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since I don't know French, I will try to finish in Eng lish to mark our better understanding -'Thank you very much!'" As for Rada, she showed almost a cosmopolitan deviationist's hunger for the exotic attractions of the West: "I want to see your cities and how your people live. I want to see the shows! The museums...
MIND THE STOP: A BRIEF GUIDE TO PUNCTUATION, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, by G.V. Carey. Cambride (Eng.): Cambridge University Press, 1958. 130 pages. 95 cents...
Jack Kennedy is the early-season Demo cratic favorite by general agreement. Says an aide to Michigan's hopeful "Soapy" Williams: "If the convention were held today. Kennedy would win on the first ballot, period." Kennedy has New Eng land's loo-plus delegate votes virtually sewed up, stands well in a dozen Mid western and Western states and has sur prising strength in the South. "Kennedy is sober and temperate on civil rights." says Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman. "He's no hell raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with...
...Ambassador to Britain. Sary's entourage: his formidable No. 1 wife, Em, a plump suffragette, and their five children, ranging in age from 8 to 18; Tep Kanary, the young beauty queen, Sam's No. 2 wife and No. 1 mistress; the other beauty, Iv Eng Seng, was either No. 3 wife or No. 2 mistress. To get around British sensibilities, Iv Eng Seng was listed as a governess. Whose business was it that she was also pregnant? Sam Sary called on Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace and presented his credentials...
Switch of String. Last month the idyllic arrangement came to an abrupt end. Iv Eng Seng fled from the embassy with her month-old baby boy to a London nursing home and complained that Sary had severely beaten her "for minor mistakes." Nonsense, replied Ambassador Sary gallantly: "I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs-a common sort of punishment in my country." Besides, said Sary, warming to his subject, he had every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip...