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Hottest rumor of the week followed the arrival one sultry forenoon of two planeloads of U.N. Italian crewmen who had ferried in a shipment of U.N. scout cars for Kindu's Malayan garrison. "Belgian paratroops!" cried Gizenga's men as they hopped into trucks for the dash to the airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried...
...Luftwaffe on D-day was one two-plane air strike. For twelve hours, Jodl refused to release two Panzer divisions that might have been thrown in, and feared to interrupt Hitler's pill-drugged sleep with news of the invasion until the official Allied communique. Wakened in the forenoon of June 6, Hitler ranted, as always, at his generals, and clung to the illusion that the invasion was another Dieppe-style raid...
...Buildings. "I know many campuses where a gunshot in the middle of the afternoon would not only hit no one; there would scarcely be anyone about to hear it. One president discovered that some 80% of all the classes in the university were held in the forenoon. He said it was hardly fair to ask the legislature for more buildings, unless the university made better use of the ones it had. After a year of urging, he succeeded in getting the proportion of morning classes reduced from...
...House of Saud and the lion cubs of Hussein [Abdullah's father] are one hand whose bonds in Allah will never be dissevered . . . They are the roaring lions and the suns at forenoon . . . Palestine is a bloody finger whose illness may be cured by resolution . . . Neither the Security Council nor falling bombs nor fire nor steel can dissuade us . . . We shield ourselves with Allah and the Koran...
Wrong Guesser. In 24 years of reporting, including stints for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror, "Aunt Geneviève" has hung up a few scoops, and a record array of wrong guesses. Her daily routine includes interviews with diplomats every forenoon, and phone calls to "well-informed friends" in London and Geneva every evening. In her elegant Right Bank apartment, she has three telephone lines and a phone in every room...