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...Leader. The political story is that as members of the French Union, the interested tribesmen and traders of Mauritania elect one representative to the French National Assembly in Paris. Ten years ago Mauritania sent to Paris, on the Socialist ticket, an olive-skinned, white-haired Moslem politician named Horma Quid Babana. In last year's general election Quid Babana lost his seat to a hated rival, whose election he tried to invalidate. Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned...
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...furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota repulsum, quid promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed resume of his first day's activity after returning to Independence in 1953: "Cistas...
...will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more, I think, to friend than foe, / Your very name excruciates my ears- / I hope you roast in hell, Horatio, / Because we've been together twenty years...
...nation whose favorite weekly pastime is "having a flutter" by risking sixpence in football pools on the chance of winning $280,000, the proposal was hailed with glee. "Honest Harold always pays," headlined the Laborite Daily Mirror. "Give him your quid and you might win ?1,000. Gambling? Oh dear...