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...British had enough troops in the Middle East under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to hold the lid down; they have been in actual military control of Syria and Lebanon since 1941. They were not averse to a fading of rival French prestige and power in the Arab sphere. But successful revolt in Lebanon might give ideas to the Arabs of British-mandated Transjordan and Palestine, British-allied Iraq and Egypt...
...everyone in the U.S., there will be one more round of higher everything, before the lid is clamped on again...
Among the fringier gents of the "give it hell" school of Chicago jazz is Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with...
...Little Opium. Farm Congressmen were demanding higher crop prices. They knew that, if the lid were off, farmers could easily sell all they grew, at bonanza prices. Maybe a "little inflation" would be a good thing, some argued...
Logic, the Prime Minister said, had proved fatal to parliamentary government. Logic, Churchill added without a smile, created the semicircular assemblies "which give every member not only a seat to sit in but often a desk with a lid to bang. . . and enable every individual or group to move around the center adopting various shades of pink according to how the weather changes." In an oblong chamber, where those who support the government face those who oppose it, "crossing the floor requires serious consideration...