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...embarrassed both by his increasing deafness and the injuries that had marred his looks. Three air crashes had mangled his nose and cheeks. While flying over Siberia on a globe-circling flight in 1938, Hughes had had to breathe oxygen for many hours through an aluminum tube; that froze his jaw, causing a bone disease that slowly eroded his profile. Still, he remained a reasonably handsome man, but unfortunately he failed to think...
...penetrating eye. Just then an American security man entered the room with Kissinger's glasses, which he had left behind at the hotel. He marched directly to Kissinger and handed them over. The American Secretary left the security man's hand hanging in the air. He froze him with a stare and asked if the young man didn't know that there was a certain hierarchy. The security man was confused and did not know what to do. [U.S. Ambassador Kenneth] Keating, who was sitting at the end of the table, finally came...
...government a breathing space. But entrepeneurs were able to hoard the rice, which the PRG sold at half price, and resell it at prices even higher than those of the Thieu regime. Last September, however, the PRG issued an economic statement that outlawed such hoarding and temporarily froze private assets over 100,000 piastres. Since then, it seems to have gained control over the speculation that accompanied the influx of rice from the north...
Most recently, Hall has been at the center of controversy when pipes froze in several Harvard Houses during Christmas vacation, after a decision to turn the heat off in the Houses...
...wouldn't you know it, after everything is all set and finished, the old clerk had a paralytic attack," recalls then councilor Eddie Crane '35. And as the stick froze in his hand for what seemed like hours, one of the brief majority quickly withdrew his vote. Nobody had five. The balloting would continue...