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...provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police. His army and his oilfields are controlled by the British, but the British legate is a bumfembedded chargé, and his aides are tired old faggots and redbrick rejects. The Russians infiltrate, the colonels plot, the inevitable coup transpires in a scarlet smear of violence. The story falters in its final pages, but Mossman never relents his graceful ridicule ("The Russian delegation in their square-rigged tunics and striped trousers arrived at the palace, looking like a band that has lost its instruments"). Nor does he abate his unseemly aptitude for discovering bacteria...
Among U.S. tropical-fish fanciers, who own some 23 million aquariums, by far the most popular species is the 190 Scarlet Characin, whose Latin handle is Cheirodon axelrodi. Among the most expensive is the brown Discus, or Symphysodon aequifasciata axelrodi, for which hobbyists pay $300 for a breeding pair. Both of these, as well as about two dozen other varieties of tropical fish, are named for a burly, sometimes surly, businessman-scientist named Herbert R. Axelrod. At 39, Dr. Axelrod has been the supreme sage on tropical fish for so long that many people imagine...
...With his scarlet wings unfurled...
...costs for the reception will be held down by the fact that it is being staged at the White House. Most of the flowers will be provided by the White House greenhouse keepers, who have grown lilies of the valley for the bridal bouquet. The orchestra will be the scarlet-coated Marine Band. The multilayered wedding cake is being prepared by the White House pastry chef, who worked for two months preparing mock-up designs for Luci...
...held off on a tax hike until "he knows where we are going in Viet Nam." In a fascinating sideshow to the ABA sessions in Spain, Martin's Federal Reserve colleague, Board Member J. Dewey Daane, appeared in a Toledo ring and made four respectable passes with a scarlet and yellow cape at a "bull." Actually, the beast was a heifer, but the bankers wildly cheered the performance-not least because no one got hurt...