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...plus $7 per diem, plus free housing, for more than 100 men-which the Geneva signatories were supposed to meet but never did. resulting in a still unsettled international tangle. The I.C.C. commandeered the best quarters in Vientiane. Some of the Indian commissioners refused to bathe in anything but soda water, presumably on the ground that Laotian water was full of parasites. Headed from 1955-57, as now, by Samarendranath Sen, an urbane Indian career civil servant, the commission rarely investigated government charges of Pathet Lao raids because of Sen's fear that this would only "antagonize" both sides...
...refers to himself as "Mr. Stereo," believes that his taped sounds answer a deep-seated emotional need-"a basic craving to hear stereophonically." But for the unwary, Frey's effects are often more unsettling than satisfying. When played at top volume, the fizz of a freshly opened soda bottle on a Frey album explodes into the fury of a hurricane-whipped ocean; the gurgle of water washing down a drain becomes the belch of some prehistoric monster...
Kasavubu's army commander. Major General Joseph Mobutu, flew in from Leopoldville and dropped by to greet Tshombe jauntily. "What's all the trouble?" he inquired pleasantly of the sullen prisoner, who sat sipping soda water as six of his Belgian aides were loaded into a plane and flown back to U.N. headquarters for questioning...
Lunch was the high point of the busy day for the kids, and they devoured 2400 hot dogs, 225 dozen rolls, 117 dozen ice cream bars, 87 pounds of potato chips, and 15 tanks of soda. The whole P.B.H. cabinet was on hand to serve the 1200 lunches in a little over an hour and 15 minutes...
Martini, Manhattan, Scotch and soda? What's your preference? Two members of the Social Relations Department will soon be happy to serve your choice of liquor in an attempt to test the effects of alcohol on fantasy...