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...Capitol in Albany. There he was a big wheel in amateur theatricals, developed a taste for Scotch and soda and an enduring reputation as a two-fisted drinking man in Matt McCaffrey's saloon (because of his ulcers, doctors now advise against soda, but Hagerty cheats for the forthright reason that "I don't like water"). He also earned a reputation as an industrious, thoroughly competent reporter. In 1940 he joined his father in covering Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign...
Cash for Cotton. Khalil's stand against Communist attempts at penetration have been forthright. His Umma Party espouses "positive neutrality," and Khalil sees that it is exactly that. When the Russians offered to take the Sudan's unsold cotton crop last year in exchange for arms, Khalil replied bluntly that what he wanted was agricultural machinery, not tanks. "We're not going to fight anybody," he said. "The cotton market is just a few hundred yards from the Soviet embassy. They can walk there and buy any time they want. And they can pay cash...
...direction of both Red China and Communist North Viet Nam, he declared: "If the moment comes when we must die or be taken over by the Communists, we will accept inevitable death with the conviction that we have not betrayed our country." It was his most forthright anti-Communist speech to date. Sihanouk added: "Many countries have not believed in the mortal danger of Communism, and then, when the evidence became clear to them, it was too late and impossible for them to come to their senses. Look at Hungary...
...Good Job." Calling shots in the control room, Director Patrick Fay kept stumbling over gender: "Gimme a closeup for her," and a second later, "Tighten up on his face." But with little show of emotion on his delicate features or in his contralto voice, chain-smoking Kahler gave a forthright, fascinating case history: his masquerade had grown so adept that from the age of 18 he had earned his living not as a female impersonator but as a woman and nightclub B girl. Wyatt's questioning brought out that Kahler had never known his father, that he came under...
...said one M.P. to an ex-P.W.: "I don't suppose you ever thought you'd drink to Hirohito's health when you were in that Jap prison camp in Malaya." The ex-P.W. grinned and drank his toast. Said Kishi later, in a forthright speech: "It is my official duty, and my personal desire, to express to you and through you to the people of Australia, our heartfelt sorrow for what occurred in the war." Kishi's apology made headlines across Australia...