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Coffee & Scotch. Thereafter, newsmen worked in a swarm around Hagerty's head. He gave 14 press conferences, following virtually all of them with a statement for TV film, plus five radio interviews and two on live TV-and answered innumerable questions by reporters outside the press conferences. Meantime he haunted the doctors, stood attendance on the President's family, kept in close touch with Vice President Nixon and White House Staff Secretary Colonel Andrew Goodpaster. He got home twice, but only to shower and change his clothes. Through the long Friday night vigil, he gulped black coffee, sometimes...
...Getting the bugs out" is standard procedure whenever anything as complex as a new airplane is delivered. The trouble with Central African Airways' brand-new Vickers Viscount propjet was that the bugs would not go. They were not, in fact, airplane-type bugs at all, but a swarm of 75,000 bees which came hiving out of nowhere soon after the plane landed in Salisbury, to take up happy residence in one of its wings. Central's mechanics scattered, and to replace them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. Blow smoke or gas into...
Officialdumb. In Wellington, New Zealand, an irate housewife complained that she phoned the Department of Agriculture for help when her home was invaded by a buzzing swarm of wasps, was told that she would receive a circular on wasp control in the next mail...
Nasser has scarcely bothered to hide it. Through Cairo's cafés, and with easy access to government offices, swarm the Middle East's biggest concentration of exiled terrorists and (depending on the point of view) troublemakers or patriots. In 1946 North African exiles set up the Committee for North African Liberation. The Egyptian government provided offices and funds for their support, had their representatives sit in on Arab League councils as advisers. Funds were raised, commandos recruited, trained and shipped off to the battlefronts...
...Watson the visiting goalie is unmercifully exposed: by the very nature of his position, he stands alone waiting for action, while a swarm of hecklers can gather behind the screen a few feet away. In a sad way, the Harvard brand of goalie-baiting has been wonderfully successful. Dartmouth's Ted Bagnall received only mild heckling here, but except for one or two games he has been on the bench ever since...