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...officer and gentleman is not prepared to go to prison when he thinks he is in the right," he proclaimed. "One must expect some casualties." Added the fierce little colonel, screwing his mon ocle into his good eye: "I have been accustomed to meeting the enemy and trying to trap him wherever I have...
...flotilla crossed the midstream boundary line into Canada, Victoria householders turned on their porch lights as beacons. By 110'clock Thomas was safely past Race Rocks, usually a tidal trap but now beneficently calm. At 1 o'clock he shouted: "It sure is cold." A few minutes later: "How'm I doin'? I want the truth now." Replied a voice from the King Bacardi: "You've caught 1½ miles in the last 20 minutes." A little later Thomas called out: "You fellas got nothing to worry about. Sit back and relax...
Emergencies are an old story to Du Pont. As a child, he sang in vaudeville with his mother. As a young man, he danced ballet. But his dancing career ended when he fell through a trap door in the Manhattan Opera House and fractured his spine. After doing the costumes for 64 Broadway shows, he went to work for Liebman on TV seven years ago at a starting salary of $50 a week (he now gets close to $500) and a costume budget per show of $250 (it now averages...
...Bear Trap. Tito led Khrushchev to a microphone to make the customarily innocuous speech of arriving dignitaries. Tito had made clear in advance that he was receiving the Russians only as chief of government, not as a straying disciple prepared to discuss his reconversion and return to the Kremlin's true faith and stifling embrace. But Khrushchev had ready an ideological bear trap...
Khrushchev baited his trap with the most abject apology any Communist leader ever made. Tito's ejection from the Cominform was a terrible mistake, said Khrushchev. "We sincerely regret what happened, and resolutely reject the things which occurred, one after the other, during that period." He produced a scapegoat. The trouble, he said, all came because of "the provocative role which was played in the relations between Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. by enemies of the people-Beria, Abakumov and others-who have been unmasked." (Beria and Abakumov, tidily removed by execution, are always useful on such occasions...