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...Princess and the Duke made their rounds of Washington without a serious breakdown in schedule, a mob scene, a sullen threat, or even a burst of Irish heckling. Partly this was due to the good manners of the capital's experienced parade watchers, and partly to the good management of a 175-lb. ex-cop, Bill Huskey, who carries the title of "special assistant to the chief, division of security, Department of State...
...best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted on giving him chance after chance...
...Pantheon. Under the sullen October sky, the grass of the infield gleamed, a green patch on the city's blotched and gritty drabness. In the deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
Organizer Saleem Abou el Naage, a handsome, sullen young man who had served a jail term for Red activities, shouted: "Every day there's a new story we'll be moved to Libya, or the Sinai desert or Syria or Jordan . . . Tell the Arab and foreign governments we'll never go! There's not enough dollars to make us forget our dearest Palestine. Here we live in a tent, fit for four chickens, not twelve people. Have you ever heard of such a camp in Russia or Communist countries? We are not Communists. We are Moslems...
After his mother's death, something happened to dzhigit Stalin. At school, he turned in mediocre marks, seemed shy and sullen, interested only in soccer. When he graduated at the age of 18, he took no job, but spent his time loafing...