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...newspapers reported that he had landed his first big legal fish since leaving the White House: he had been hired as lawyer for Howard Hughes's T.W.A., whose struggle against Pan American for world air routes will ultimately be settled by the President. The President paid no heed either to the unfriendly weather or to Clifford's awkward status. He had paper work to do: it involved clubs, hearts, spades & diamonds and an occasional nip of bourbon & branch water. After all, early-rising Harry Truman could sleep in the morning at Key West-and sometimes...
With South Africa's rabid racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan ready to seize on any excuse to step into Bechuanaland, which borders his country on the north, Britain's ministers seemed far more willing to heed his wishes than those of the Bamangwato. This week in Serowe, 35 Bamangwato elders refused to go to a special Kgotla meeting called by Britain's High Commissioner Sir Evelyn Baring to inform the Bamangwato of the government's decision. "We cannot," they said, "attend any tribal meeting in the absence of our true chief Seretse...
...CONGRESS The Elephant Hunt Drawing a bead on Virginia's apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, the Senate's economizer extraordinary, is almost as adventurous an undertaking as stalking a bull elephant with an arquebus. But Minnesota's bumptious Freshman Hubert Humphrey was never one to heed the admonitions of his elders. He sighted on Harry Byrd's jaw-cracking Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures. Far from serving as a useful check on government spending, blared Humphrey, the Byrd committee might better be described as "the nonessential committee on nonessential expenditures...
...Perhaps little heed will be given any defense of the animal," say Pigs' authors with a touch of bitterness, "and people will continue to libel him to the end of his days. But when that end comes, what a turn-about-face! When pig becomes pork, what eulogies, what panegyrics...
...bambuco has a long history in the Colombian countryside. For 100 years, the backlanders of Boyaca and Tolima have danced and sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...