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...into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote to 17 nations urging them to stop buying Tshombe's exports. Many of them would shrug...
...laws if nuclear attack wiped out a majority of legislators. But Rhode Island passed a measure that sets up an emergency chain of command in case such disaster obliterates top officials. The surprising opposition to this praiseworthy plan caused Major General John M. McGreevy. state civil defense director, to shrug: "I don't think the voters knew what was involved here...
...slay a solon. And he had it all planned out. The intended victim was Alexander Wiley, 78, after 24 years the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate. The plan was simple: campaign energetically around the state, irk the old gentleman, let him lose his temper, and then shrug it all off as though it were pitiful proof of senility. The Nelson strategy worked...
...corny to be really dirty, McGill's cards played for the broad belly laugh rather than the snide snigger, and in so doing gave expression to a peculiarly British brand of humor. His very first success, which might draw a wondering shrug or an embarrassed titter outside Britain, but hardly a howl, showed a chambermaid peeping through the bathroom keyhole and saying, "He won't be long now, sir, he is drying himself...
...book progresses, the message becomes clear-not new, but in this handling hard to shrug away. These poor creatures, isolated, inarticulate, fearful of showing their numbed feelings but more terrified still of dying without ever having been known to anyone, are vignettes of everyman-in foreboding miniature. In the prose-poetry of her alter ego, Author Frame asks her unanswered question...