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...away from the course. Most of the racers were walking as they came into Kenmore Square. The sixth place runner was passing whn we reached the Square. Leandersson and Van Zant, someone told us painfully, hadn't shown up yet. In a second floor window a man in a trench coat, with carphones around his head, watched the runners and talked calmly into a microphone...
Hatless, her curls flying, she motored to the Associated Press office near the Puerta de Alcala. When her black Cadillac convertible (with ducal escutcheon enameled on its door) halted, a taxi pulled up just behind. From it hurried two men in the typical trench coats of the secret police. They blocked Luisa Maria's way. "Duchess," one of them said, "you must come along with us. The chief of police wants to have a talk with you at once...
This week, on his way home from a get-acquainted tour of Asia, new External Affairs Minister Percy Spender was bringing a policy puzzler in the case of John James Trench-Thiedemann of Ceylon. Eurasian Trench-Thiedemann had been refused entry to Australia, presumably on the basis of his dusky appearance. But his full brother, Duke, was admitted two years ago, has been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that...
...Navy wore an air of defiant calm.. "It's not serious but it's awfully inconvenient," said a spokesman. They sent out some tugs and pulled. Nothing happened. They dug a trench around her, dredged a channel through 830 yards of shoals back to the channel. They pumped off all her oil, blasted tunnels under her with high-pressure hoses, got more tugs. Several hundred bluejackets raced from the port side to the starboard side and back, sallying ship in an effort to free her ample bottom from the sucking mud. Nothing happened...
Then there are a few things that are expensive: portable typewriters, Glenn plaid suits, watches, Meerscaum pipes, and trench coats...