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...Cardinal Mindszenty's exile was certainly not "a wasteful expense of spirit." He served as a source of strength all over the world. The writer of your article must be a lily-livered, milk-toast egghead who would have cracked after the first day at the hands of the Communists...
...moated walls of the 300-acre royal compound is well-cocooned and calm. Emperor and Empress rise early in their 15-room apartment in the small Fukiage Palace. Hirohito does not particularly enjoy coffee, but drinks it because he considers it an essential part of the Western breakfasts (toast, bacon and eggs or oatmeal) he has eaten since his first trip to Europe 50 years ago. After his meal, he is bowed out the door by the Empress and strolls to the new Imperial Palace, built in 1968 at a cost of $36 million to replace one fire-bombed...
...this country to achieve equality by using the tools within the System, I would have given up long ago." Said Toastmaster Thurgood Marshall, the first black man to sit on the Supreme Court: "The world is a whole lot better for what you have done, so the only toast is just 'Thank you, Roy.' " . . . It was "roll 'em" time on the Young Winston set at Swansea, and the place was crawling with make-believe Churchills. There was Simon Ward, 28, playing Winston the war correspondent, Michael Audreson, 14, portraying Churchill as a schoolboy, and Anne Bancroft...
...elegant White House dinner held on Labor Day last year, the President of the United States rose to offer a toast. Lifting his champagne glass in the direction of the rumpled patriarch seated to his right, Richard Nixon paid tribute to "a distinguished labor statesman, a man who stands for the best in free labor and for the best of America." Flushed with presidential praise, George Meany, leader of the giant, 13.5 million-member A.F.L.-C.I.O., responded with words of glowing admiration for Nixon as a leader "dedicated to the same ideal and the same end" as U.S. labor...
...face seems to be under two separate spells, one side of it benign, the other twitching with intimations of violence. And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast." Suddenly there is a despairing glimpse of a schizophrenic life cracked by thwarted dreams...