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...made one bad slip on the January day he fled Venezuela one jump ahead of the howling mobs. He forgot to take along a suitcase he had packed for the getaway. Beneath the socks, shirts and underwear were bundles of papers-stock certificates, bank-deposit slips, property deeds, and memoranda of commissions squeezed over the years from companies doing business with his government...
...bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals sounded in private exactly as they do in public-breathless and inchoate. The conference did result in a plea to Acting Secretary-General U Thant, who thereupon started to work...
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...combat history. When the huge project began, the scholars were appalled to find themselves under the command of a handsome young Regular Army light-colonel, who looked 18 and was only 30. As it turned out, Colonel John Kemper handled his irregulars so adroitly that Baxter & Co. never forgot his "tact, courage, imagination and rare administrative skill...
...blue denims, a three-day beard, and a pair of black leather shoes with gold buckles, explained in detail his personal painting, his philosophy of painting, his life history since about 1950, his academic background and his views on museums, and his feelings about Boston. And in case he forgot anything, his wife was there with the baby to tell us more...