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...they try to shake him down. In reply, he shovels on sarcasm and overtrains them until they drop with fatigue. When they refuse to shave with cold water, he takes away their razors and soap, an order which puts them in a bad odor and wins them the barracks sobriquet of "The Dirty Dozen...
...elections proved at least that in Chicago, whose pugnacious brand of politics has earned it the sobriquet "City of Clout," Daley will still have plenty at his disposal when, as expected, he seeks a fourth four-year term next spring...
...wigs to the U.S. and relying on China for more than 80% of its hair, the ban has all but ruined the Italian wig industry, forced 80% of the companies that jumped on the wig wagon to go out of business. Even Gaetano Palombi, who earned the sobriquet King of Roman Wigmakers for his coiffures in such hairy Italianate screen extravaganzas as Ben-Hur and Cleopatra, has had to cut back his staff from 45 to twelve...
...Ambassador to Saigon, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam since 1961 and one of the President's most trusted advisers on the war. As commander of the 101st Airborne Division* at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience...
Died. Jeannette Kittredge Watson, 82, widow of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., mother of Tom Jr. and Arthur K., the firm's chairman and vice chairman, who accompanied her husband on business trips, served as a director and gave the staff an enduring sobriquet, "the IBM Family"; in Manhattan...