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...abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs are not only a well-organized team (coached by a lank Egyptian, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League), but a sort of alumni club: most of the Arabs at U.N. were educated at the American University of Beirut...
Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
...years of the tiny Independent Labor Party in Britain's House of Commons, variously known as "most popular M.P.," "the Wild Man from the Clyde" and "the Rebel without an Enemy," brilliant Socialist prophet and author (If I were Dictator); after long illness; in Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value at all, and it is a characteristic of the Scottish people to tend to deify...
...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
...superior is the Presiding Bishop of the 'rotestant Episcopal Church, lank Virginian lenry St. George Tucker, who spent 25 years...