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...Henry would still recognize. A fly-buzz quiet settles over the cobblestone streets of Tegucigalpa. Honduras; the weary bell of the city's crumbling, weather-stained cathedral gives out a few clunks, and toothless crones in black shawls shuffle inside. In Managua, Nicaragua, scrawny men, their shirttails out, flop gratefully in shady places in the plazas. In El Salvador, leaving some ornate mansion, a member of one of the 14 families that run the country glides by limousine to his club for an afternoon of bridge high above the sewer stink of acres of shacks. But before and after...
...that if it had planned for failure, it would not have acted much differently." Douglas said that by not selling the bonds, the Treasury "may gleefully think it has won a battle; but they are going to lose the war." He is probably right. Despite the bond flop, there seemed little chance that Congress this session will lift the 4¼% ceiling on bond issues of five years or longer...
...trip was a flop. Quadros was supposed to stay in Castro's Cuba six days. But when papers back home began calling him "irresponsible" and his statements of praise for Castro a "pact with the devil," it apparently dawned on him that Brazilians have no vast yearning to take their cues from a reckless government on a chaotic island that is only one-tenth as populous as their own country. Two days before his visit was supposed to end, he dashed off bread-and-butter messages to his hosts, climbed aboard a plane for safer terrain in Venezuela...
Back in England, the colonial kid whirled in and out of schools, failed to get into Cambridge, distinguished himself by playing jazz piano in a nightclub called the "Blue Peter." At 18, he wrote his first novel, Pied Pipers of Lovers, a dismal flop. To rip off his "cultural swaddling clothes," Durrell fled to Europe, and in the early '305 settled on the Greek island of Corfu. There, Larry learned Greek and discovered a literary foster father, Henry Miller...
After a year and a half of dipping into his TV loot, Teddy had taken a look at his thinning bankroll and decided he needed a job. He asked to become a census taker. On the standard exam, he did well on the language sections, but Teddy was a flop when it came to map reading, i.e., showing that he could stay within his assigned area, spot landmarks, figure the distance to the city limits, etc. The Census Bureau decided that there was no sense in hiring a man who might get lost before he got out of town. "This...