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...astrologer and a scholar steeped in the hermetic philosophies, but an occultist . . . Rather tall, well built, broad-shouldered, heavy and slow in his movements, he might have been taken for a descendant of the American Indian family . . . Perhaps the closest description I can give of him at the outset of our acquaintance is that of a Stoic dragging his tomb about with...
...chief advantages of Canada's membership in the British Commonwealth is the opportunity it affords for close contact and frank talk with India and other distant Commonwealth nations. That advantage was pointed up clearly last week when another Commonwealth conference opened in London. From the outset, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson strove to explain Canada's−and North America's−diplomatic viewpoints to India's Prime Minister Nehru and other neutralist Asians...
...From the outset of his Administration, President Eisenhower made it clear that he did not want yes men in his Cabinet. Before he took office, he met with his Cabinet members-designate in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel and read to them a draft of his inaugural speech. When they applauded (cried Charlie Wilson: "You flew the flag! It was wonderful!), Ike said: "I read it far more for your blue pencils than I did for your applause...
...outset of the month-long campaign, the opposition Liberal Party confidently predicted that the time had come to end Expert Politician Duplessis' long reign as political boss of French-speaking, Roman Catholic Quebec. In recent times, 66-year-old Bachelor Duplessis appeared to have lost some of his old zest for power. Sharp-tongued Maurice seldom spoke in the legislature any more, and when he did, he seemed tired and even conciliatory...
These forces would include all officers and men of the armed forces, all wearing the same uniform. The officers would come from the old Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, would be on a single promotion list, and would at the outset be integrated by rank and seniority on the new AFUS roster. Later, officers would come from a National Defense Academy. There would still be quartermasters, medics, research and development commands, etc., integrated and directed through the appropriate Assistant Secretary of National Defense and staff section...