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...Ford station wagon rolled slowly through the Brussels traffic, drew up in the Marolles quarter. Three men climbed out: a cleric, a middle-aged official and a young man in a brown raincoat. They looked at the miserable shelter of a rags-and-flowers merchant, walked on through one of the more squalid slums of Europe. In one street they met a group of children. "It's the King!" cried a child. "How do you know it's the King?" "It must be. He has such nice shoes." The children shyly touched the young man's raincoat...
...looked, in the words of one acquaintance, "like an N.Y.U. philosophy professor who was on the football eleven not so long ago." Son of a Polish merchant, he became a Communist in his teens, held various party positions, then worked in a textile plant while a refugee in Britain during World War II. He often expressed his admiration for the British character. He was described as disillusioned because the U.S. and Russia failed to cooperate in U.N. (although he seemed to do his best to thwart any cooperation). Once, according to one story, he was making an anti-American speech...
...into a bristling arms dump: 1,000 rifle grenades, 1,000 bazooka shells, cases of rifle ammunition, napalm powder for making jellied gasoline, 900 parachute grenades with the chutes removed and napalm inserted. The chief was still staring in surprise when a 1953 Packard drove up, bearing Manhattan Arms Merchant Alfred Manheim...
...farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building in the small town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise where Antoine Pinay was born 61 years ago. His father was a drygoods merchant, his mother a steel-willed matriarch who trusted sternly in God and the franc...
Recession. In Matsuyama, Japan, "Rice Merchant" Tadashi Ebino was finally tracked down by police after he had 1) collected 2,000 yen ($5) in advance from a customer, 2) borrowed the customer's bicycle to deliver the rice, 3) borrowed the customer's watch to make certain he got to the rice pickup point on time, 4) failed to return...