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...enraged by the persistent charge that he is under the thumb of the Catholic hierarchy. He resents his cloakroom nickname, "The Archbishop." as an insult to the Catholic Church. He is a deeply religious man who always wears the blue rosette of the Knights of Malta in his lapel. Of the eleven honorary degrees he has received, seven are from Catholic colleges...
...carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy's jaw. Sir Evelyn Hone grappled manfully with the assailant. Police hurried up and hustled him away...
Hostility & Achievement. Author White strives for objectivity, but there is no question whose campaign button adorned his lapel. The TV debates were a "disaster" for Nixon. Kennedy's campaign was "brilliant." His coverage of Kennedy is more complete, more successful than his picture of Nixon. Nor was it entirely his fault: Nixon kept to himself, and his campaign staff was hostile to the press. White sums up a prevalent attitude toward the reporters with a quotation from a Nixon staffer: "Stuff the bastards. They're all against Dick anyway. Make them work-we're not going...
Although German TV has sometimes been plagued by bureaucratic squabbling, it is locally run and self-regulated, might well serve as a model of what American television could be if its potential strength were not sapped away by lampreys, leeches and narrow-lapel orchids...
...Justice Department office in Washington, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 36, hung up his telephone and said wearily: "It's like playing Russian roulette." And in Montgomery, the capital of Alabama and the birthplace of the Confederacy, Governor John Patterson, 39, wearing a pure white carnation in his lapel, complained bitterly: "I'm getting tired of being called up in the middle of the night and being ordered to do this and ordered to do that...