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...More than 1,800 kinds of edible fish swarm in Brazil's waters, but Brazilians still open Portuguese sardine tins, and they imported tuna until last year...
Despite its dramatic failings, La Dolce Vita contains some of the most imaginative and skillful cinematography I have ever seen. The sleazy crowd of photographers that hovers around Marcello's car moves like a swarm of unspeakable vermin...
After graduation, Unruh barged into the maelstrom of Southern California politics, soon made a name for himself as a tough, liberal Democrat with a talent for back room profanity. In 1954 he was elected to the assembly. Eying the swarm of free-spending Sacramento lobbyists, Unruh decided that they could be put to systematic practical use. He became a one-man collection agency, spreading the lobbyists' largesse among deserving Democrats for their campaign chests. To cries that such practice is unethical, Unruh simply snorts: "If you can't take what the lobbyists offer and still vote against them...
...Council were driven from Manhattan to Philadelphia by the CIA and flown to a secret rendezvous in Florida, where they could be held in readiness to move into the first available chunk of "free Cuba." They were lodged in an old house near an abandoned airfield, surrounded by a swarm of agents, ordered to stay put. At one point, some of the council members announced that they were going to leave, even if it meant getting shot, but were put off with promises. Eventually, Kennedy's Latin American affairs specialists, Adolf A. Berle and Arthur Schlesinger, flew in from...
Gagarin arrived in a turboprop airliner escorted by a swarm of jet fighters. Along with his parents and Wife Valentina, the entire upper crust of the Soviet hierarchy was on hand to greet him. The nuzzling, the bear hug and the long kiss he got from Premier Khrushchev seemed even more active than Valentina's warm embrace. Other dignitaries greeted the cosmonaut in their turn. Then, in a column of flower-decked cars, the official party drove slowly toward Red Square and a 20-gun salute from Red artillerymen...