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...long report to Geneva, the International Control Commission, which is supposed to be policing the truce, simply threw up its hands. Wrote Chairman Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...
...Parliament upped his wife's allowance from $16,800 to $42,000, and Tony had to move into one of his in-laws' houses on the grounds of Kensington Palace. The butler promptly quit and told all, complaining that Tony was far too democratic for any royal servant to work for. To keep busy around the house while his wife was out working at her royal duties, Tony designed and built an elaborate balsa-wood model of an aviary for the London Zoo. Sniffed the bumptious Daily Express: "Mister Armstrong-Jones must now be ranked...
...unsettled international tangle. The I.C.C. commandeered the best quarters in Vientiane. Some of the Indian commissioners refused to bathe in anything but soda water, presumably on the ground that Laotian water was full of parasites. Headed from 1955-57, as now, by Samarendranath Sen, an urbane Indian career civil servant, the commission rarely investigated government charges of Pathet Lao raids because of Sen's fear that this would only "antagonize" both sides. When the Laotians, in 1957, briefly got together in a coalition Cabinet, they soon asked the I.C.C...
...president. Since then, Van der Beugel has conquered his nervousness about air travel by making 104 flights "in self-defense," but still insists that "subnormal mechanical intelligence" makes planes a mystery to him. Last week, more interested in his keen economic mind than his airworthiness, KLM moved ex-Civil Servant van der Beugel into the president's chair. Highflying KLM's first-quarter 1961 revenues were a record $36 million...
...play with his toy soldiers or flog a dachshund suspended by a rope from the ceiling. "In later life," writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this gap in her experience." In later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life"). The French philosopher Diderot once shook her till her shoulders were black and blue to get her to apply a little enlightenment to her realm. With regal practicality she retorted: "Your medium is paper...