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...back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...
...Cubans chuckled, the ad only stirred Batista into stepping up his drive to flush out the rebel forces. Government planes attacked at least eight villages near Castro country. Four B-26 bombers and three F47 fighters swooped down on the hamlet of Purial de Pilon a few days after some rebels passed through, strafing and bombing it for 25 minutes; 40 of the 400 townspeople were killed, including 17 women and children who were later buried in a common grave. In Dos Bocas de Cordero, Batista's airmen killed 15 villagers (and eight cows). Planes machine-gunned a peasant...
...first flush of his unprecedented electoral third-term victory, Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer drove out to the Benedictine monastery at Maria Laach near Bonn, where he had taken refuge for almost a year during the worst days of being Nazi-blacklisted before the war. In one respect the Chancellor's hour-and-a-half meditation in the monastery gardens was like all his actions of his week of triumph: he kept a discreet silence about his intentions, as is the victor's prerogative. The opposition Socialists, on the other hand, might be expected to hold a noisy...
Fifteen years after Coke's death in 1634, Charles I paid with his head for trying to follow suit. It was Coke, above all men, who wrote finis to the royal four-flush...
...that pair of helicopters that have been proposed for getting you out to the golf course a little faster than you can make it in a car?" At the question Eisenhower showed more anger than most Washington correspondents have ever seen him betray. His face bleached, and then a flush of red spread upward from his neck. After a moment of dead silence he glared, and his words came like small-arms fire. "Well, I don't think much of the question, because no helicopters have been procured for me to go to a golf course...