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...Cybele a shaman and guru, and obediently follows her in a ritual play-therapy. Through her he will be freed from his amnesia and vertigo--"You will be my healer," he pleads early in their friendship. And, indeed, the dizziness disappears when at last he climbs a steeple to steal the weather-cock she has so long cherished...
...Clay Committee last spring and reduced his own earlier request by $400 million he was met not with Congressional approval but with an additional $1.5 billion in cuts. Slashing the foreign aid budget had become a useful game, and Congress was not going to allow the the President to steal all its best plays. The same thing will no doubt happen this year...
...convinced that the youth of the country want me to take the position." President Johnson, also nominated by acclamation, leaves the choice of a running mate up to the convention, and says he is "pleased as punch" at the selection of Governor George Wallace, who, he thinks, "will sure steal the thunder from those two Republicans...
...state of emergency in the border region, where nomadic shiftas (raiders) from Somalia have recently stepped up their attacks on a part of Kenya that is inhabited by Somalis. The government set up a five-mile-wide buffer strip along the ill-defined border, where, it claimed, shiftas "steal cattle, beat women, threaten to murder tribal chiefs and others"; last week four tribesmen were killed and eight were injured in one raid. Kenya's Somalis have repeatedly asked to be annexed to Somalia. To prevent their secession and fight off the raiders, one Kenya politician has urged the government...
Author Pogue writes with grave admiration but indicates that behind the soldier's icy reserve was a capacity for friendliness sometimes oddly revealed. Marshall liked to unbend with practical jokes, once took the trouble to steal his adjutant's watch just so he could solemnly present it back to him at a formal awards ceremony. Before marrying his second wife (his first wife had died) Marshall drove her home from a dinner but deliberately took an hour doing it. When she remarked that he must be lost, Marshall replied: Quite the contrary. If he did not know...