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...Tinhorn Dictator? Clifford's rebuke privately pleased U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman, who agreed that the brick-walling over procedures has gone on long enough. Still, Harriman took pains to try to soothe Ky, went so far as to spend at one point 75 minutes conferring with...
What further irritated Ky was the fact that Clifford's attack emboldened South Dakota's Senator George McGovern to weigh in with an intemperate comment. He called Ky a "tinhorn dictator" (Ky's defenders pointed out that he was no more of a dictator than more recent Vietnamese rulers, and that, at any rate, President Nguyen Van Thieu has all but eclipsed him) and added: "While Ky is playing around in the plush spots of Paris and haggling over whether he is going to sit at a round table or a rectangular table, American men are dying...
Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion...
...veneer that can flake off with the slightest scratch of a military finger. Since mid-December, three black governments* have been toppled by military coup. For a while last week Nigeria seemed on its way to becoming the fourth. What makes Nigeria different is that it is no tiny tinhorn republic. It is the continent's most populous nation (56 million people), its economy is one of Africa's most prosperous, and-with 250 tribes and tongues-it has long been considered one of Africa's most democratic and stable countries...
...many a tinhorn ruler had done before him, Fidel apparently hopes to form a third world force of small, revolutionary countries, and Havana Radio hinted that it should be represented by a new tri-continental organization with headquarters in Havana. To Cubans, that sounded like circus time forever...