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...this musing, onetime (1941-45) Vice President Henry A. Wallace, hybrid-corn developer and gentleman farmer, added that population trends are indeed "ruining gradually though surely the quality of human life," plumped for hereditary records and genetic guidance "to enable intelligent young people to make free-choice the matings which will increase the genetic wealth of our planet." But such instruments would never, he said hopefully, "be used by any genetic Hitler...
Winston Churchill: "A great parliamentary figure, but not a great parliamentarian. He never took the trouble to understand procedure. He always had a general idea that he might talk whenever he pleased ... I once had to say: 'I must remind the Right Honorable Gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.' . . . What Winston always requires is some strong people round him saying, 'Don't be a fool over this.' I remember Lloyd George saying to me once, apropos of something, 'There's Winston-he's got ten ideas on this...
...wool suits, in shirtsleeves, in spangled caps and long white robes, the delegates trooped to the platform to give thumbs-up salutes, hands-up salutes, and to cry, "Africa! Africa! Africa!" One gentleman from little Dahomey delivered a speech while waving three placards at once. Regrettably, one of the most colorful heads of delegation was not heard. He went by the name of Cissé Zakaria, and called himself Crown Prince of Mauretania and General of the Liberation Army, but an alert Accra hotel clerk quickly tagged him as the deadbeat who had run up a ?79 bill on previous...
...Mild Gentleman. The Arabs who first made this discovery were the Baath Socialists, who are particularly strong in Iraq and Syria. It was their Syrian leader, Vice President Akram Hourani, who saw the Communists about to come to power in Syria and, to prevent it, rushed Syria into union with Egypt. And it was the Baath Socialists in Iraq, emerging as the chief anti-Communist and pro-Nasser force in the country, who were the chief victims of Kassem's roundup of conspirators in Baghdad last week. In Cairo, Saeb Salam, who led Nasserite forces in the recent Lebanese...
...onetime accountant from Georgia, who earned a law degree in seven years of Washington night school and in his government career has had more to do with budgets than with diplomacy, Assistant Secretary Rountree had never run into such calumnies in his life. "You know the mild gentleman he is," said State Department Spokesman Lincoln White at a Washington press conference...