Word: hiding
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Front Seat. When Macmillan elevated Home from Commonwealth Relations to the Foreign Office last July, the Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul." Home admitted wistfully that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality...
...Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would go to Nice, he might take off for the North Pole...
After the intermission, the orchestra played the finale from Symphony No. 4, by Tschaikovsky; "Hernando's Hide-away" from The Pajama Game; selections from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein '39; and "Harvard Fantasy," by Leroy Anderson '29. The intermediates left early to the strains of "Never on Sunday...
...locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide-covered tents for apartments in modern Ulan Bator (pop. 180,000) and four other 10,000-plus cities. Some 100,000 Mongolian children and adults are in school. Though its 21 million head of horses, camels, goats, yaks and sheep (now nearly 80% collectively owned ) remain the center of its economy...
...What Novelist Caute shows expertly is a process of decline and fall coupled with an opposing, ominous rise that is by now the ruling cliché of half the world's troubles. The whites cannot even withdraw gracefully; they are paralyzed by native hatred that scarcely attempts to hide its emotions. And what the country faces when the British do leave is all too obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that is at least equal to his need for humiliating the whites. His "action troopers" care...