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...into the speeches in his own honor to propose a toast to the mayor, who, Philip had discovered, was celebrating his wedding anniversary, remember still more fondly a reveler shouting a last farewell as the royal yacht left the wharf: "See you later, alligator." Amid the hushed silence from officialdom, Philip's final message to the loyal citizens of New Zealand came clearly across the still water: "In a while, crocodile." Wrote the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "The Duke has given a new conception of monarchy to Australia by his easy camaraderie and complete informality. He has made...
...Realization. Dazedly the good people of Nashville began to recognize the horror of what had occurred. Those elements of officialdom, press and public that had stood aside from the battle were shocked into a new appreciation of law and order. "Ain't things got terrible?" wailed one frail old woman who had demonstrated against integration only the day before. "This is no longer a matter of segregation or desegregation," said one school official. "This is a matter of sheer lawlessness. We're up against thugs...
...master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought it all comedy. But was it? The vein of unreality in Gogol himself had laid...
When long-haired Rebel Chieftain Ba Cut lost his head to a government guillotine a year ago (TIME, July 23, 1956), officialdom in Saigon thought that the threat of rebellions by the country's fanatic, oddball religious groups was ended at last...
...this temporary escape clause; instead, he is hoping that the Allies will annul the sales agreement and leave Krupp with all its empire. For three years, General Manager Beitz, who chafes at Alfried's moderate approach, has been badgering Bonn officials, nagged the U.S. State Department, wheedled British officialdom in hope of having the Mehlen Accord canceled. Last February Chancellor Adenauer finally wrote to the British, French and Americans asking for its reconsideration. So far, there has been no formal response, and the U.S. State Department is not sympathetic to a change in the accord...