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...already refer to as La Nuit Folle (Mad Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely crowd of Resistance veterans, movie starlets, beatniks and the sports-car set up from St.-Tropez. They all struggled into ill-fitting boots and khaki uniforms as members of an impromptu militia...
Well-fed Belgians, the tails of their sports shirts hanging over their khaki shorts, clogged the noisy Manhattan Bar at Leopoldville's Hotel Regina, and diners at the Sabena guest house could still enjoy coquilles St. Jacques, snails and mussels flown in from Brussels. With the flood of U.N. soldiers in town, the souvenir business was bigger than ever; on every street corner, the inevitable Hausa traders from Nigeria offered carved ivory, lizard handbags and ebony figures at prices tailored to the foreigners' handsome wages...
...that en sued, she streaked through the airport, hid out in a washroom, was finally foiled only after ducking into a plane that turned out to be the wrong one. Ground ed and surrounded, Kate tried to nutter one shutter with a judo hold, lost her footing, ended up khaki slacks over tea kettle in a perfect pants-point landing...
...acre main campus beside the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The campus is an architectural hodgepodge dominated by a football arena seating 65,000. Drawing heavily on the state's population hub, it has 23 parking lots for 7,000 cars. Like lunch-bound auto workers, khaki-clad boys and white-sneakered girls spew out of classrooms to the clang of bells at 20 minutes past every hour, and since 1949 the sidewalks have been widened by four feet to keep people from butting each other into the shrubbery...
Ever since he was spirited out of Argentina nine months ago, Eichmann has been confined in a heavily guarded cell at an undisclosed location. He wears Israeli army-style khaki trousers, shirt and pullover and when not consulting with his lawyers, keeps busy boning up on standard works dealing with the Nazi persecution of the Jews. His German-born lawyers, Robert Servatius and Dieter Wechtenbruch, meet with him for six hours a day in a windowless room bisected by a glass wall. Lawyers and client have to communicate via earphones and microphones. The lawyers show Eichmann documents and letters from...