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...polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light cruiser. He stands importantly at the head of the gangway in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, noting his own flag, designed by him, flying above the bridge. He is obviously using the warship as the most agreeable means he can think of to journey up to his vacation retreat at Campobello...
...House of Commons one afternoon last week, question time had just ended. Members began sauntering away from the crowded government front bench below the gangway. Among the last to leave were two former Prime Ministers of Britain. Venerable, 89-year-old Winston Churchill rose slowly, made a few tottering steps. Instantly, the other ex-Prime Minister, grey-haired Harold Macmillan, was at his side, putting a steadying hand beneath Churchill's arm. Macmillan, now 70 and barely recovered from a serious prostate operation last fall, no longer carries himself with the ramrod posture of a Guardsman. Together, the elder...
...minutes later, a short, plump man in a shabby grey suit bustled expressionlessly down the gangway, sank into the Opposition front bench facing Macmillan, and fingered a cardboard file. As the clock struck, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson rose to his feet and for a second savored the tingling silence before breaking it with his flat, nasal Yorkshire voice. "This is a debate," he began, "without precedence in the annals of the House...
...Hugh Gaitskell: "His death is as if a fire had gone out-a fire which we sometimes found too hot, by which we were sometimes scorched, but a fire which warmed and cheered us and stimulated us." In a corner seat of the front bench below the gangway sat the solitary figure of Sir Winston Churchill, who had often been Nye Bevan's bitterest foe. When Gaitskell recalled some of Nye's fierce sallies, including the attack on Churchill when he cried that he welcomed the "opportunity of picking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard...
...grey-mustached man, gaunt, hollow-cheeked and weary, but very much alive. Last week, pardoned as part of the Cyprus peace settlement, George Grivas arrived home in Athens and was feted like a hero out of Homer. At the airport Grivas strode briskly down the gangway from the Greek Air Force Dakota that had been dispatched to Cyprus to fetch him, and he pushed first to the arms of his wife. He was dressed as he had lived for four hunted years, in brown sweater, brown britches, polished boots. His tan beret had the blue and white letters EOKA crudely...