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...people, who were kept almost totally in the dark about their government's attempt to plant rockets 6,000 miles from Soviet soil, Khrushchev was playing the role of the stern defender of peace on the side of plucky little Cuba. But it was not so easy to fob off Communism's professionals...
...Capitol Hill, giant cranes swing slabs of gleaming marble onto the façade of a new, $70 million House Office Building. On Independence Avenue, Government girls are still learning their way around the corridors of "FOB 6,"* an ultramodern Federal Office Building housing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Near tranquil Thomas Circle, huge holes in the ground mark the sites for two multimillion-dollar hotels. In the nation's capital, these and scores of other scenes bear testimony to a dramatic fact: Washington, D.C., is getting the greatest face lifting in its history...
...available, they are usually so shoddily made as to be almost useless. Two enormous hangars in the Johannestal airport are crammed with $75 million worth of textile products that nobody at home or abroad will buy. (After Ghana and Guinea turned them down, the East Germans tried to fob them off on Communist Hungary-which indignantly returned the whole lot.) The state-owned shoe industry was recently forced to burn 25,000 pairs of sandals that were unmarketable...
During his 60 years, Gary Cooper learned to punch cows (at 13, on a ranch owned by his father, a Montana State Supreme Court justice), to draw (as an art student at Iowa's Grinnell College), to hunt, ski and skindive, and to fob off reporters with half-caricatured one-yup-manship. Some critics have said that he never bothered to learn to act. Actors who have worked with him say this: no one ever stole a scene from Coop...
...woke up with a hangover in the Union Army. Scholar Russell is well dug in behind about 500 footnotes and a bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles barefoot through snow and prickly pear; the U.S. Cavalry troop with which Bill rode and whose main commissary item was a five-gallon demijohn of whisky and Old Tom Cat gin; the Indian called Young Man Afraid...