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...usual months of negotiations, it had taken just 20 days for Australia to borrow a cool $100 million.* The loan was formalized last week in Washington's whitestone World Bank building, when tall, lean World Bank President Eugene R. Black and short, stocky Australian Ambassador Norman J. O. Makin briskly signed their names to a stack of papers (30 signatures apiece...
...found that UNers do not have time to be really full-time culture vultures. The average U.N. delegate goes to the theater or the opera no more than once a month, always finds tickets hard to get. Australia's J. 0. Makin is the most devoted theatergoer (he has sat through Anne of the Thousand Days four times), possibly because in his youth he wanted to be an actor himself. Britain's Alexander Cadogan found American plays rather inferior; as for recent movies he liked best, they were Henry V., Hamlet and Fallen Idol; when Cadogan thought about...
...attitude of masters to boys who got stuck: "Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, gen'lmen, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run . . . vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in makin' a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes . . . It's humane too, gen'lmen, acause, even if they've stuck in the chimbley, roasting their feet makes 'em struggle to hextricate theirselves...
...words for his country's action. U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which has been trying to mediate between the Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...
...jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down in the excavation...