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...years, most of them on the island of Majorca, he does not speak a foreign language. His son Dodge, a senior at New York's Hamilton College, recalls an awkward scene one day when Fielding kept telling a Spanish cab driver that he wanted to pick up some cojónes (testicles); he meant cajónes (boxes). In his politics, Fielding leans to the right, but he bends over leftward when it comes to cigars (Cuban) and stands up straight when it means business. As he explains in the style book for his staff: "We are never political in Free World...
...Sosthènes Behn was one of the last grand old gentlemen of finance, at ease with king or laborer alike. ITT represented, to its thousands of workers, one man, who commanded their fierce loyalty, love and admiration. I am glad Colonel Behn did not live to see his dream become a giant conglomerate, where the personal touch and human values are lost in the balance sheet, drowned in the quest for the almighty dollar...
...crucial months, beginning last October, the post of Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs was unfilled. During the three months immediately preceding the war, not one U.S. official spoke with United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser. U.S. Charge d'Affaires David G. Nes reported from Cairo that trouble was brewing, but later complained that Washington ignored his warnings and branded him an alarmist. Top-level responsibility for the Middle East was bucked from official to official. Nicholas Katzenbach looked into Washington's policy when he became Under Secretary last September, quickly passed...
...Texas Leaguer into right to drive home Karegeannes. ab h r rbi Smith ss 5 1 0 1 Cunningham 3b 4 0 0 0 Hootstein rf 5 0 0 0 Lord cf 5 1 0 0 Hall cf 5 1 0 0 Houston 2b 3 0 1 0 Kare'nes 1f 3 1 2 0 O'Donnell 1b 4 1 0 1 McCandlish p 1 1 0 2 Lincoln...
...rivals Evtushenko in popularity. His latest volume of verse ran up an advance sale of 100,000 in Russia, and his public readings have packed a Moscow sports palace with 14,000 bellowing poetry buffs. What is more, in these always adequate and sometimes redoubtable translations, Voznesensky (pronounced Voz-nes-yen-ski) considerably surpasses Evtushenko in poetic capacity. He is indisputably the most powerful lyric poet to appear in Russia since Pasternak...