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...counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet "the Henry Kissinger of Israel...
...Censor on the steps of the Basilica on the theory that a nun might be fairly safe from assault by irate tourists. Before long, the question was: Was anyone safe from Sister Fiorella? Newspapers nicknamed her "The Terrible Nun," and she did her best to live up to the sobriquet. She turned away as many as 35 women a minute during peak periods (up to 2,000 a day), usually with a wave of the finger but sometimes by sprinting into the church to nab offenders who were brazen enough to try to slip past...
...America's bareheaded Chief Justice Warren E. Burger straining in ear-cupped intensity to hear speeches, while the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and the British Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, sat in bewigged splendor. ··· Not for nothing did the jet-set society earn its sobriquet. People arrive and depart from it with supersonic suddenness, though few have managed to do so as discreetly as Talitha Getty, the glamorous 31-year-old wife of Paul Getty Jr. After she died of what police said was barbiturate poisoning, a Roman funeral was held for Talitha. One unidentified...
WHAT we in show business learn first is to READ THAT CONTRACT! The contract said, for example, that I ("hereinafter called Performer") must permit the producer to use my biography, likeness, name and sobriquet for publicity purposes. I suggested that "Rock" had a nice sobriquetish ring to it, but was persuaded to go with "Jess...
...gave scientists some hint of impending trouble, they are still unable to predict eruptions with any accuracy. As a result, they concentrate on trying to minimize damage once the lava flows. Belgian Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, whose asbestos-suited sorties into fuming craters round the globe have earned him the sobriquet "The Inferno Detective," has suggested bombing Etna to test methods for diverting the lava flow from villages. The Italians shrugged off the idea. It could raise a Solomonic question: Whose land should be spared and whose should be ruined...