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...nervous turkey into his hands. As the days wore on, Kefauver began to show slight signs of weariness. Once he blooped that President Eisenhower "has been stacking the National Labor Relations Board with pro-labor people"; another time, that "the Republicans are winning Maine." At the Cleveland Steer Roast, 40,000 people turned out to hear him drone on aimlessly comparing the administrations of Eisenhower and Grant for an hour ("When Estes is tired," confided an aide, "he just can't stop talking...
Just as the opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
...bunch of the boys from Judd & Detweiler, a Washington printing firm, decided to get together one weekend last fall for an oyster roast. They scarcely had their schooners of beer operating before, one after another, they broke out in splotches and began to feel palpitation and extreme drowsiness. Comparing notes, they discovered that they had all experienced the symptoms before when drinking. Word got around the plant, and 58 other sufferers stepped forward. Together they petitioned management to explain why they were unable to take alcohol...
...Last week, at the start of Deauville's most fashionable fortnight, André prowled his domain from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. each day, checking the activities of his 2,000 employees (per capita wine allowance: 5 gals. a season), the kitchens that dish out one ton of roast beef and 30 lbs. of caviar a day, the cellars from which 20,000 bottles of champagne flow each season...
...crowded streets and candle-gleaming churches of Chicago and New York City, the Feast of St. John the Baptist was celebrated in high style last week. There were heaps of lechón asado (roast pig) and pasteles (meat cakes wrapped in plantain leaves). Blindfolded children laughingly broke piñatas, whacking away with sticks at the hanging earthenware pots that might contain candy or water; music vibrated whole city blocks, and there were dozens of mambo, cha-cha and rumba contests. For San Juan is the patron saint of the island of Puerto Rico, and the Roman Catholic Church...