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...truce tents at Panmunjom, nothing was settled either. A dismal pall of petty complexities had settled over a mission that once seemed pressing and simple. Daily, the truce delegates marched into their stove-warmed tents for the usual round of long, surly wrangles or ridiculous little meetings of a few minutes (one last week lasted only 120 seconds) at which neither side would speak. The issues were the too familiar ones-the Reds' insistence that Russia is a fit neutral to police the truce, the U.S. insistence on "voluntary" repatriation of prisoners, the usual exchanges of insults over mishandling...
...Philip, the Queen walked along the garden path linking Clarence House with St. James's Palace, to receive the homage of her Privy Council and sign the oath of accession. An hour later, in a blaze of medieval pomp, her accession was formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard below stood guardsmen holding rifles and bandsmen with drums muffled...
Pride of Petticoat. Like all the King's women, Nell was paid out of the Secret Service funds. The payments grew as Nell grew on His Majesty, until she was established as mistress of ?5,000 a year and a mansion in Pall Mall, and was second only to the Duchess of Portsmouth in the King's affections...
Moses, his first Old Testament novel, should be another bestseller, even though it contains little to scandalize anybody. Novelist Asch does try to rationalize a few of the Pentateuch stories, e.g., the "pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night" becomes a pall of light-refracting dust raised by the tramping Israelites and their cattle. Yet nothing can dim the essential grandeur of Moses and his mission...
...navy held all of south Bangkok. Army and police were in control of the north, while air force trainers, fitted with improvised bomb racks, fought a desperate duel with navy ships in the river for command of the west side's dockyards and fuel depots. A black pall spread over the city as a bomb struck square on a fuel depot. At one point, the navy sent out an amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke out on board and the ship began...