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...White-Sneakered Amateurs." But even as the torrent of testimony continued to flow in public, the real shaping and shuffling of the platform planks took place in the nighttime privacy of hotel rooms, where drafting subcommittees worked till dawn. Frustrated by the Goldwater forces' kill-'em-with-kindness strategy, anti-Goldwater leaders fell to squabbling among themselves. Scranton-supporting committee members, led by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, wrote 31 different drafts of a proposed civil rights plank before they could agree...
...whether Sarit had actually dipped into the till, the committee said that to date it had traced $17.8 million of government money to Sarit's estate. Committee Chairman Phra Manuvej Vimolmath said that part of a state fund of 12 million tickels ($600,000) had gone exclusively to Sarit's minor wives. The money, he said, came from a special government account known as the Funds for Secret Work...
...entire $6,400,000 highway appropriation, once appointed 600 men to the single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks, who became a millionaire by dipping into the till. His mistake was once inviting General Artur da Costa e Silva to visit his sumptuous apartment, showing off his wardrobe ("Fifty white linen suits alone," he beamed). Came the revolution, and Costa e Silva, now Brazil's hardheaded War Minister, personally entered the banker's name...
...sinking," when they asked her to pose in spike heels on a soggy lawn. She even tried to elude them when a gift Indian sari was wound about her dress. "It's like taking pictures of me in a bathtub," she chirped. "Y'all wait till I have...
...When General Khanh's South Vietnamese troops and their G.I. advisers "clear" a village, that village is swiftly transformed into a "strategic hamlet"-ringed by barbed wire, sandbags, searchlights and gun nests. Its peasants are then encouraged to till their fields in support of Khanh's regime. When the Communist Viet Cong occupy a village, they give out food, medicine, supplies, and free tips on improved farming methods. Then come the leaflets foretelling the glorious rewards of working under the Communist state. The peasant is reminded of the dynamic figure of Ho Chi Minh to the north...