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...tabloids, whose readers thirst for backstairs gossip, the drab releases are not enough. They thrive on rumors (most of them inaccurate) picked up from various royal employees-and occasionally on eyewitness accounts by those who have left the royal household. On all such journalistic works the palace frowns. Last year, after an ex-valet to the Duke of Edinburgh wrote for the Sunday Pictorial that Philip wears long underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note...
...will soon go out to WHO representatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. As the doctors wound up their conference last week, Denmark's H. C. Gram thanked their Paris hosts in a speech based on the old, long list: Paris, he said, "saved us from E933" (hunger, thirst and exposure), so that in future, delegates would "instantly suppress 310" (anxiety) when called on to return to Paris. Not participating in the conference were Iron Curtain doctors, who abandoned WHO in 1949, possibly embarrassed by E985 on the list (execution...
...Organization of American States' field investigators, who announced only that the invaders' arms came over Costa Rica's "northern border." That finding, however, was enough to make Tacho hastily withdraw any further aid. Then another disillusionment dawned on Calderón Guardia. In seven years of thirst for revenge, he had convinced himself that a discontented Costa Rica would rise and hail him as its liberator. Instead, the people formed a citizen's army to defend the Figueres government...
Begun as a sport by aristocrats in the 17th century, scientific bell ringing fell into disrepute during Georgian times because it raises a great thirst in a man, and ringers went oftener from the belfry to the pothouse than to the church. But now, change ringing is having a revival, sparked by the interest of mathematicians and scientists.* Last week England was agitated by some big bell news: the attempt by eight veteran bell ringers in the Midlands factory town of Loughborough to set a modern change-ringing record...
...atomic weapons. With each reiteration of this standard Soviet demand, the possibility of genuine international cooperation on the plan seemed to dwindle a little more. As late as November 12, Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky told the United Nations that the Eisenhower plan means only that "those who thirst for substantial assistance would be given crumbs from the rich man's table...