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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep into the Atlantic City surf in order to take her picture, Luci's capers never became a public problem. Nellie Grant's flirtations were so well noted that her mother packed her off to Europe at 16-only to have Nellie return with a dandified English worshiper in tow. Alice Roosevelt (who will attend this week's wedding) scandalized Washington 60 years ago by smoking cigarettes in public and riding horseback in breeches...
...told that I look like Churchill and speak English like Charles Boyer," Paul-Henri Spaak once said. "Of course, I would rather speak English like Churchill and look like Charles Boyer." With 230 lbs. on his six-foot frame, Spaak could hardly pass for Boyer. And for all his oratorical gifts, he would never be confused with Sir Winston. Yet for 34 years, he was a power in Europe. He was Foreign Minister of Belgium six times, and twice the nation's Premier. Spaak in fact, was bigger than the tiny country in which he was born...
...like the Anglo-French-Israeli treaty," he said on a BBC interview in London, "was necessarily secret, because the circumstances were very difficult." Pineau felt the time for secrecy was past. "I should think that after ten years," he noted, "it would be possible to say more. If my English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak up, it would have to be Eden-now the Earl of Avon-and Lloyd, and last week they both were keeping...
First there were the white mercenaries hired by Mobutu's predecessor and enemy, Moise Tshombe, a tough gang of Belgians, Frenchmen, anti-Castro Cubans and English colonials, all with ties of loyalty to Tshombe. Then there were the 2,500 Katangese "gendarmes," whose fiery red-and-yellow scarves and flashing bush knives had figured in every Congolese conflict since the Tshombe secession of 1960. Finally there was ex-General Mobutu's own Armee Nationale Congolaise, inefficient as fighters but at least loyal to his government. Fearful of disarming or disbanding the "Kats," who might stir up trouble back...
...insults? The result is the Wolfe Publishing Co.'s Insult Dictionary, subtitled, "How to Be Abusive in Five Languages," which has already sold some 50,000 copies across the Atlantic, promises to sell thousands more in its forthcoming U.S. edition. With 127 pages of snappish asperities in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the Insult Dictionary provides useful tips for conversations with surly cab drivers, arrogant bank tellers, clumsy hairdressers, nose-picking grocers and road hogs...