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ASSUR-NASIR-PAL II was the terror of the civilized world. When he completed his palace in 879 B.C. in present-day Nimrud, northern Iraq, "the Great King, the Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" celebrated with a palace-warming that included a ten-day banquet for the royal city's entire population-more than 69,000-as well as for visiting VIPs. Assur-nasir-pal II had populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history...
...Road. In Maywood, Calif., police allowed an hour-long lunch to Louis H. Martinez, about to start a ten-day jail term for drunkenness, but the court upped his sentence to six months after he slipped into a bar, managed to get well boiled before police found and rejailed...
...find a conservative Republican who would introduce the trial-by-jury amendment for them, they lighted on Illinois' Freshman Russell Watson Keeney of Wheaton. It was Keeney who sponsored an amendment guaranteeing jury trials in criminal (but not civil) contempt proceedings. But when, at the climax of the ten-day debate, the amendment came to a vote, Joe Martin coolly predicted that he would lose no more than 40 Republicans. He actually lost 39 on the 199-167 tally...
When the talking was over, and before Diem set out on a ten-day tour of the U.S. the two Presidents issued the customary formal communique. It was phrased in the same hard-worn phrases of today's diplomacy: both recognized the threat of the Communist buildup in North Viet Nam, Diem pointed up the need for "closer cooperation with the free countries of Asia," the two governments agreed "to cooperate closely together for freedom and independence in the world...
Citizens of Bogotá were hauled from their beds before dawn one day last week by the nervous jangle of telephones and the jubilant honking of auto horns in the streets. Joyous news swept the city; after a ten-day period of terror and near-revolution that saw more than 100 killed, President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 57, was out. The overwhelming combination of the Roman Catholic Church, rioting university students, the Liberal and the Conservative Parties and the country's tough-minded bankers and businessmen had brought the strongman tumbling down...