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...couldn't say much-political pronouncements are touchy with him, particularly when he is on Spanish soil, as he was then. He roared with laughter when I tried to put a political question to him. He is an exhilarating talker in English, and probably in the five other languages he speaks as well." When Artist Henry Koerner painted Don Juan earlier in Portugal, he was dressed more formally in the uniform of the Maestranza de Ronda, an honorary Spanish military order which he has headed since he was a young...
...change. But nothing has changed more than its co-attraction, the sideshow. Once a traveling chamber of biological horrors, it has now been tamed into a sort of Ed Sullivan variety show with cotton candy and Cracker Jack. Rationalizing the metamorphosis is Nate Eagle, 62, the corpulent, mustachioed talker and general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. Says horn-voiced Eagle: "You don't find freaks in sideshows any more. You find strange people, odd people, unusual people-sword swallowers, tattooed people, strongmen, magicians, escape artists, ventriloquists, or men who can walk up a ladder...
Beleaguered, bothered and often bewildered by the pressures of the cold war, West Berliners were ready and waiting for Bobby Kennedy. They wanted to hear some tough talk from a top U.S. official who is a notoriously tough talker and, up to a point, they...
...Review argued that Welch, far from repenting such absurdities as his 1958 attack on Eisenhower as a Com-symp, is as loose a talker as ever. To Welch, for instance, the Bay of Pigs was a theatrical performance jointly sponsored by Castro and "his friends in the U.S. Government" in order to strengthen the Communist hold on Cuba. Not only the U.S. State Department but also the Central Intelligence Agency is Communist-riddled...
...Paul had lived today." said Pope John XXIII last week to 250 newsmen from Rome's Foreign Press Association, "he would probably have been a journalist. St. Peter was a good talker, but no one was as good as St. Paul. It was he who caused the Gospel to be preached to the ends of the earth. Can we doubt that he would have done it by means of the press, had he lived in the 20th century...