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...tact and courtesy, with unrelenting care for the respect of human beings. This requires not a little urbanity in relations with the public." Will the oldest constabulary in the Western world mend its ways? One man on a beat had a plain reply: "Toi, méle toi de tes oignons [Mind your own onions...
...dreamed of such a book all the time he was stuffing model cars and magic tricks into cereal boxes. "If we're going to give the kids something," says he, "let's give them something to help them rather than, the usual old blah." Forsaking blah. Plat tes commissioned Dr. Walter J. Breckenridge, director of Minnesota's Natural History Museum, to compile an illustrated nature book. Breckenridge included pertinent facts about each animal (horned toads are really lizards; skunks are ac curate up to 12 ft.), tips on such field-trip essentials as avoiding snakebite...
...London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Stirling Moss drifted endlessly in and out of consciousness, talking dreamily in three languages about beautiful women and fast cars. "Connie, vous étes une belle fille. Vous étes très sympathique." His head rolled restlessly. "É molto difficile per un corridore-molto difficile It's very hard for a racer-very hard]." Suddenly he was lucid again, instantly transported to the scene of his own near-fatal crash in the Goodwood International Grand Prix fortnight ago. 'It's bad, this crash," he said. "One hundred...
...minions!" demanded a government proclamation. Cried Radio Katanga: "Please attack the United Nations dogs!'' But things were not all serious. Radio Katanga also played "victory" cha cha chas. And after the heat of battle was over one day, most of the Katangese officers, chewing their entrecôtes de veau and pommes frites at the Leo II's dining room, could talk of little else but the tragedy of the Sabena guest house, where artillery that day had shattered one of the best restaurants in town...
...long last, De Gaulle decided that it was time to rally the nation's support in his own inimitable way. Out went invitations to another of those majestic press conferences in the Elysée Palace. Some 600 journalists showed up in the glittering Salle des Fétes at the appointed hour. As the tall, haughty figure stepped from behind the red curtain to take his seat before them, photographers' flashbulbs popped and reporters' pencils were poised. For an hour, De Gaulle answered questions with his characteristic, measured and misty eloquence. But he dismissed his critics...