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Tour of Duty. The four clubwomen had landed from a DC-6 at Rio's inter national airport with pencils and notebooks ready, determined to get the facts. Each had a few well-chosen words for airport interviewers, and "Grannie" Swanbeck, like a veteran politico, hugged the first Brazilian baby in sight. The visitors tasted their first Brazilian black coffee and duly noted that a small cup cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber...
...Could we only hit upon a few great principles," wrote a fellow Democrat to Martin Van Buren during the campaign of 1828, "we should succeed beyond a doubt." In the campaign year 1954, the same politico might have begun: "If we only knew what to do with the principles at hand, we should succeed beyond a doubt," and his prescription would fit either party...
...revolt was forming near Cap-Haitien, under an ambitious politico named Guillaume Sam. Admiral William B. Caperton, U.S.N., on the U.S.S. Washington, met Sam unofficially and offered him tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at signing a treaty for U.S. occupation of Haiti. Instead, he jailed and massacred 167 suspected revolutionaries-then panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port...
...scramble caused by another Premier's fall, the Christian Democrats groped for a new candidate to govern Italy. The key man in the operation turned out to be a practiced and familiar politico: Alcide de Gasperi...
Like an old politico, Marilyn parried that one with a "No comment," but the newsmen were crowding...