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...benighted sheep-anti-Peronistas and independents. The proper way to deal with the anti-Peronistas is to "hit them" occasionally but not too often-"if you hit them every day, in the end they won't feel the blows any more." As for independents, "they are like the stool of the dove that smells neither bad nor good. Some leaders have lost what they had in an attempt to win independent opinion. Independents must be left alone-they cannot be led. They are the savages still permitted by civilization...
...sturdy Ashantis, 900,000 strong, grub for gold and diamonds in the forest fastness of their hereditary King: Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, a dignified man in his 60s who plays golf, keeps several dozen wives, and uses as the symbol of his office a glistening Golden Stool...
...Stool, which Ashantis say was plucked from heaven by a priest, has the significance of the Crown in other monarchies. Gold Coast newspapers headlined the U.S. election: EISENHOWER...
...when the Purdue University Glee Club serenaded her with the love song of the Chicago sound wagons, Mamie, What a Wonderful Name for the First Lady of the Land, she jumped up and blew kisses. The President stood soldierlike through it all (he spurned the easy way, a concealed stool used by Harry Truman four years ago). He stood at solemn attention for every passing flag, and whenever a contingent of marching women came by, he gallantly doffed his celebrated Homburg...
...York waterfront-like the hills of Tennessee and the old West-is best understood through its folk tales. They are extremely hard to collect. They are sung from a witness chair rather than before a campfire, and their heroes and/or villains are so expendable that most bards and/or stool pigeons can remember only a few. But last week the New York State Crime Commission procured the services of two witnesses who were able to bridge almost 20 years of noisy pierside warfare...