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Soon after Stalin's death, Beria's colleagues became leary of Lavrenty. With a vast private army of secret police and 15 divisions of elite troops, the ambitious policeman was in a perfect position to grab control. After tailing Beria for a few weeks, the Party Presidium realized that his coup could come any moment, and so they decided to spring the trap. Acting Party Boss Khrushchev buttonholed Marshal Kirill S. Moskalenko, then commandant of the Moscow antiaircraft defenses, asked him bluntly: "Have you some men who are willing to risk their lives?" Replied Moskalenko: "I have...
...obviously developed some fondness for the Super-Americans. He praises their kindness and their courtesy. "Men and boys, even younger women, give their seats on buses to the elderly. Children are taught manners. Men tip their hats. Women acknowledge having a door held open for them. Men do not grab taxis ahead of ladies, even when it's raining...
...Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks, soot and no bra, rushed back from her studio during the fire to grab up a garden hose, but was unabashedly just as concerned with soaking up publicity as with soaking down her house. Her $200,000 manse survived unharmed, as did the nearby rented quarters of the Richard M. Nixons. But at the height of the fire the former Vice President, not taking...
...Independence Day." From the safety of their Tunisian headquarters, the F.L.N. leaders urged Moslems to avoid violence and celebrate "joyfully, as if independence had already been gained." The European Secret Army Organization, which is determined that Algeria remain French, was nevertheless not ready to make a direct grab for power. A secret S.A.O. broadcast told its followers to stay out of trouble. For its part, the government swiftly cordoned off the various Moslem quarters in Algiers, Oran and Constantine. All traffic was rerouted, and streets leading to the European sections were closed by barbed wire and heavy police guard...
Opposing a possible sale of the city's Corporal Burns playground to the University, he assailed the "gigantic land grab in Cambridge" and proposed a bill for the state legislature that would prevent Harvard from "grabbing" any more taxable land...