Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...loudspeaker announced each arrival: Premier Manouchehr Eghbal of Iran, Premier Adnan Menderes of Turkey, Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir of Pakistan, British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia. With all due pomp, the U.S. last week was playing host to the semiannual Ministerial Council of CENTO, the Baghdad-less Baghdad Pact...
...with an old grudge against Red China, and from the United Arab Republic, whose grudge is new, both called on Nehru. Finally, Burma's Prime Minister Ne Win flew in. "General Ne Win's call," said the Hindustan Times, "signifies more than a courtesy visit. Burma, no less than India, is menaced by Chinese aggression along its border...
...democratic statesmen have less to fear from their parliamentary opposition than Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah; in Ghana's last general election three years ago, Nkrumah's Convention People's Party won 71 out of 104 parliamentary seats. But U.S.-educated (Lincoln and the University of Pennsylvania) Kwame Nkrumah remained unsatisfied, ever since has spent much of his time working toward the total eradication of the opposition...
...Roman nobles began drifting into the Café de Paris, too, and nowadays Principessa Giovanelli, Marchese Bottini and assorted Orsinis and Caracciolos are regularly paged over the Café's new loudspeakers. Says a less exalted Roman who recently abandoned his longtime table at Doney's: "I like Americans. But I like my Roman friends, too. And the place to see them is at the Café de Paris." Inevitably, more and more Americans in Rome are beginning to take the same line. Said one two-week tourist: "I like to watch strange people...