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...ambassador observes quietly that he would never have accepted his present post if he were not convinced that the regime in Saigon is "sincere about its program of social revolution." His own taste for tulips is reflected in the sober belief that after years of volatile protest and vacillating regimes, his people "are now willing and able to participate" in what Vu Van Thai sees as South Viet Nam's new and significant "emergence of leadership." Says he: "I believe that we shall overcome...
...Sober Nightclub. Even more influential is London's Siegmund Warburg. He fled to Britain with less than $25,000 in 1933, later stormed the City's tight inner circle by investing in growing companies, reorganizing sick ones and exploiting his best asset: savvy in world finance. As a master strategist of Reynolds Metals' 1958 battle for control of British Aluminium, Warburg fought most of the British banking Establishment-and won. His S. G. Warburg & Co. also plotted most of the press takeovers by both Lord Thomson and Cecil King, helped Chrysler buy into Rootes Motors, arranged financing...
...devoted to his next to last symphony, which commemorated the end of World War II. Written when Prokofiev was a semi-invalid, the sixth is largely elegiac, for "wounds that can't be healed." Erich Leinsdorf distinguishes subtly between each muted mood, first sorrowing, then celebrating with sober splendor, and kicking off the traces for a jaunty, jazzy finale...
...Sober Striptease. Not surprisingly, the U.S. was eager to show off the nuke, to prove at least that the Costa Bomba, as it was being called, was demonstrably safe for tourists-in addition to rebutting in advance any murkey insinuations from Moscow that the recovery operation was all a big hoax...
...python's proprietress, but family fealty prevails over private pleasure. With the town's aging sheriff, he rounds up a dozen rustic volunteers and marches off to the chase. Along the way, he gets disastrously drunk on a double swig of corn liquor, staggers off to get sober, and winds up delightedly in bed with the impotent old sheriff's mildly demented young wife...