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Personable President Sukarno was presiding at a meeting of his Supreme Advisory Council, only a few hundred feet from the palace. When the firing ceased, Sukarno paused only to grab a long-handled black umbrella and then raced across the palace lawn, was relieved to find that his seven children had not yet come home from school...
...violence of Mboya's language, delivered with a pleased smile, reflected his own increased self-confidence and his shrewd tactical awareness that he dares not let any African leader grab a more extreme position for independence than his. To the crowd of 20,000 gathered in Nairobi's African Stadium, Mboya pledged, to the biggest cheers of the day: "We will not rest until Kenyatta is back with...
...scientific-technical education-and that all the lags together add up to a danger that the U.S. may slip to "second best" in the world. Such a composite "secondbest" issue is already shaping up among pundits. But it is a sticky issue for a Democratic candidate to grab hold of, involving a risk that it might lose votes by seeming unpatriotic...
...proposal, coming almost five months after the commission's recommendations, was promptly attacked as a belated Republican attempt to grab political credit on a hot election issue-especially since Rogers is Vice President Nixon's close friend and adviser. While Dixiecrats maneuvered to send Rogers' proposal to the limbo of Mississippi's Senator James 0. Eastland's Judiciary Committee, liberals lamented the last-minute torpedoing of the registrar plan, to which they are heavily committed. But Rogers seemed to have the last and most effective word: the referee plan, he said, had been presented...
...around the outside to exploit the spectacular view. For roof beams he bought 60-year-old redwood timbers of a demolished bridge. A four-car garage was dug partially out of bedrock, leaving a prehistoric Indian mound undisturbed. Says Owings: "No house can do more than snuggle into and grab hold of and hold on to a sheer bit of granite on this coast...