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...householder knows," Rusk said, "it takes a bit of doing to get along with the people next door when the dog rolls in the flower bed too often, the kids break windows with their baseballs, and the garbage can becomes a problem." During the seven hours of rambling discussion that followed, the delegates and their platoons of advisers got around to practically all topics of neighborly interest except unruly dogs and garbage cans...
...finally retired as board chairman. By virtue of a decision to leave the chairman's spot vacant, the vice-chairmanships of two of Resor's top hands were also eliminated: Samuel Meek, 66, who has run Thompson's international operation for 36 years, and Henry C. Flower Jr., 64, a 33-year Thompson veteran. Both Flower and Meek will continue with the agency as directors and members of the pension fund. But a rush of younger blood has taken over Thompson's power positions; actual control has passed to a younger generation of newly created senior...
...borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking photograph: Pablo Picasso, bare to the waist and bronzed, with a flower behind his ear, the eternal...
...Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga: he announced that he might star...
...sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...an active and ambitious prince, in the flower of his age, surrounded by generals of unrivaled skill...