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...main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper-man for the job. And just as Hammarskjold...
...resist with machine guns, mines and booby traps. Stretches of the single-track rail line leading into Katanga from Kasai were ripped up, and armed Katangans with dynamite rushed out to block the few dirt roads at the Kasai frontier. Most of Tshombe's force was a ragtag outfit, but Belgian officers at Kamina airbase were openly supplying him with spotter planes and tactical advice. At week's end the Lumumba troops paused 20 miles from the frontier, awaiting the attack order. Unlike Kalonji's Mining State, Katanga would scarcely fall without a fight-a fight that...
...Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk and a cast of dozens roamed the convention floor freely (while many delegates had trouble getting into the hall at all) to sell Adlai with glamour. Outside, Actress Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, dressed in the costume of a Golden Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John Wayne, but for Peter Lawford's Kooky Klucks Klan...
...Treason Theme. Beaten by the Nazis and the Viet Minh, humiliatingly ousted from Morocco and Tunisia, evacuated from Suez, the French army has salved its pride by ascribing all its reverses to "betrayal by the politicians." Its mutinous spirit was not ragtag but austere: a conviction that they who did the dirty fighting are purest of heart, and entitled to sit in judgment upon the acts of the state. "Conditional loyalty," Old Soldier De Gaulle called...
...your luck is good, King Romulus keeps saying, you can get away with anything, from the murder of a twin brother (Remus) to the rape of the Sabine women. While his ragtag followers, mostly brigands and landless peasants, build the new city of Rome on the left bank of the Tiber, Romulus keeps on talking. He is, he assures them, the son of the war god Mars, and was suckled by a she-wolf as a baby. As presented by British Author Duggan, that veteran rewrite man of ancient history (Winter Quarters, King of Pontus), Rome's founder...