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...people of Jordan had been warned to make no fuss over the homecoming of their unbalanced King. On King Talal's own orders, only 30 people-all of them dignitaries-would be allowed at the airport. Everything began properly as planned. A 25-gun royal salute blasted out from Arab Legion cannon and rolled off the surrounding hillsides, reverberating through Amman. A twin-engined De Havilland Dove rolled to a stop, and out stepped 43-year-old King Talal, looking worn and taut. He mumbled a few words, which no one could understand, to Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb...
Dean Acheson was in England to receive an Oxford degree and attend a Big Three Foreign Ministers' conference. Hearing the furor, he lunched with Anthony Eden, quickly agreed to a proposal by Lord Alexander (made before the fuss began) that Britain should have a deputy on the high command in Korea. Then he stepped before a special meeting of some 300 M.P.s in the grand committee room of ancient Westminster Hall. The bombing, he said, was a military undertaking, not a political move, and the U.S. was not obliged to notify Britain in advance. He expressed regret, however, that...
When the Lowell House Musical Society was organized in 1931, the group confined itself to occasional recitals which could be put together with a minimum of fuss...
...this publicity is amazing," he told reporters. "I can't understand all the fuss over a little thing like this." He refused to tell them the name of his dog, called the question "an intrusion of the dog's privacy." Noting that he still had the salvaged $1,000,000, Redfield added: "Just say that I don't want anyone to feel sorry...
...nearly nation-wide fuss made around the "cross-burning" in the Harvard Yard is a most amazing fact to someone born in a country where racial discrimination has never been a major issue...