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...Into the Lair. Betancourt began by wooing the military in its own lair-the marble, mahogany, and gold-crusted officers' clubs built as a form of bribery by Pérez Jiménez. He offered not bribery but calming talk: "The armed forces are indispensable for the republic." He insistently hinted that the day of the bloodless, predawn coup had ended...
...laurel wreath. Grivas was weeping. "Small Cyprus fought Goliath," he said. "It did not succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood of Cypriot fighters, will be the link between Cyprus and Greece." His eyes still wet, Grivas was led to a Cadillac, and driven through flag-decked streets to be cheered by a quarter million Athenians...
...other editors with better memories remembered the baby sitter's tale for what it was: a gnarled hoax that has been knocking around city rooms for 25 years* When the more knowing editors began to protest to A.P., Twin Cities reporters, backtracking truth to its lair, found that the trail ended with a 35-year-old suburban Minneapolis insurance agent named Fred R. Keller, who said only that he had heard the story from someone else...
Marti re-recruited the Lion and the Fox, and on April 11, 1895 landed in Oriente, the rebel lair. Six weeks later, at 42, he died sweetly in battle, and Cuba got its national hero. Spain vowed: "Cuba shall remain Spanish though it takes the last man and the last peseta." Rebel General Gómez vowed: "We will be free, though we have to raise a tomb in each home." New York Herald Correspondent Stephen Bonsai, father of the new U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, visited Havana's Laurel Ditch, the Spanish execution ground, and wrote: "Clots of dark...
Twice a week after breakfast, Walter Lippmann sequesters himself in the study of his ivy-clad home on Washington's sedate Woodley Road to write his syndicated column, "Today and Tomorrow." The study is manifestly a scholar's lair. Ceiling-high, Pompeian red bookcases line three walls; the fourth is decked with framed pictures of Lippmann friends, living and dead: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau. A snow of documents mantles the oaken desk...