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...Issued new visitors' cards setting forth the rules for House gallery behavior, e.g., men must take their hats off, note-taking is not permitted (except in the press section), and visitors should not lean over the railings...
Encouraging as they are, Diem's accomplishments are minor compared to what remains to be done in attaining law and order and building public confidence. Stubborn and negative-minded, Diem disquiets some of his countrymen by his continued withdrawal, and by his tendency to lean for advice more on three of his brothers, Bishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, Ngo Dinh Luyen and Ngo Dinh Nhu, than on his Cabinet. His reluctance to delegate authority has led him to fantastic time-consuming pettiness. Samples: recently he took over himself the granting of all entry and exit visas and the scrutiny...
...footer, Taylor was wounded once and jumped twice into battle with his 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the Eighth Army's last combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...
...orchestra had a mellower, thicker tone than its great U.S. colleagues. Its string section sounded as sweet and intimate as a string quartet, its winds included a solo flute and solo oboe of melting beauty, and its brasses played with a polished but slightly lethargic quality. Conductor von Karajan, lean and dapper, planted his feet firmly, took a stance with elbows bent as if carrying an invisible basket of flowers. His style was mannered-in his most ardent moments he bent stiffly from the waist and closed his eyes-and he gave the impression of overseeing the music rather than...
...Some people are born to spend their lives catching up; and they are as a rule the passionate ones." The aphorism is a lean and literary fugitive that flourished most elegantly in the salons of France's ancien regime. The mere fact of its reappearance on the San Francisco docks makes this book noteworthy...