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...first official move, Stokes lunched at the royal palace, presented the Shah and his consort with overflowing baskets of gladioli, orchids, fruit brought from Britain; Teheran papers promptly saw a favorable omen for the talks. This week, Stokes, who glories in the role of a hardhitting, U.S.-type businessman, will sit down at the conference table with the Iranians. Hovering in the background, ready with soothing words and compromise suggestions, is the one hero of the crisis: tireless W. Averell Harriman. His performance so far: excellent...
February, once a word of ill-omen, should be an adjective of gloom, just as Shakespeare once used it, in Much Ado About Nothing: "Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, of cloudiness...
...announcing the news of this happy betrothal of the great Farouk, [His Majesty's] Cabinet thanks Divine Providence for its beneficence, and prays that it may surround His Majesty with its high solicitude, secure his happiness and felicity, and make of this blessed betrothal a source of happy omen for beloved Egypt and for the august royal family...
...born in 1759, in an Ayrshire clay cottage built by his tenant-farming father. Within a week, the roof blew in on little Rab (no one ever called him "Bobbie"). He was too young to interpret the omen, but father Burns had a flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
...speech, he faced an audience of about 700 in the National Press Club. "Our talks," he read hopefully, "are enabling us to understand each other's point of view." Was there a suspicion that he had come to the U.S. to talk of appeasement? "That word of ill omen . . . That is not true. We know from our own bitter experience that appeasement does not pay." Then he spoke the one emotion-charged passage in his speech: "You may be certain that in fair weather or foul, where the Stars & Stripes fly in Korea, the British flag will fly beside...