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Rare Eloquence. Hammarskjold confronted a second major crisis when Premier Lumumba served an "ultimatum," threatening that he would call in Russian troops if the U.N. did not get the Belgians out of the Congo at once. Hammarskjold offered a careful, sober report on what the U.N. police force had achieved in a brief five days and what it hoped to achieve in the immediate future. Despite Belgian charges and Congo countercharges, it was Hammarskjold's level-voiced account that carried the most weight. In the course of the action, Hammarskjold had the satisfaction of seeing the Soviet Union cast...
Regardless of political affiliation, every American should give long and sober thought as to how he is going to vote in the coming election...
Looking at the cold statistics in the record books, U.S. Olympic Track Team Chairman Pincus Sober said: "We will face an uphill struggle to amass as many gold medals as we did in Helsinki (14) in 1952 or at Melbourne...
...Thames was full of practicing oarsmen last week, all correctly garbed in soggy sweat suits and all wearing the sober face of dedication to a gentleman's sport. Then an Australian named Stuart Mackenzie clapped a flippantly incorrect bowler on his head, put on a sardonic grin, and sallied out for a trial scull. Watching Mackenzie's parody of his prospective rivals, one old Cambridge rowing blue sniffed: "Just not the sort of thing done around here...
...misunderstood by many of his contemporaries and a sizable share of his biographers. His mistresses, whom he kept in oriental profusion, thought that they governed him, and Parliament agreed. Political adversaries and friends alike thought him a libertine, which he was, and a fool, which he was not. His sober adviser, Lord Halifax, grumbled that "the wit of a gentleman and that of a crowned head ought to be two different things...