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...gifts to friends, usually expensive and conventional, often run wild and combine with a boisterous taste for practical jokes. To various people he has given a pig. a goat, a horse 600 Ibs. of manure, a dozen rabbits, a truckload of used furniture, a tiny monkey, and a basketful of shrunken heads. One recipient retaliated by sneaking into Gleason's bathroom and filling the tub with Jello...
...foundations of a revolutionary regime have been to a degree established," the military Premier announced. "I am voluntarily resigning, since I realize the urgent need of a more aggressive leader who will be able to carry out stronger policies." In fact, his retirement had been hastened by a truckload of Pak's troops, who swooped onto General Chang's home in the predawn hours and hustled the startled victim off to Seoul's capitol building. Getting the point, General Chang called an emergency cabinet meeting and made his announcement. Then, with three other members of the junta...
...knowing when that will be. Nobody knows but God. A small group like ours, which was caught up in a nightmare, can't move but one direction at a time." By week's end, food and clothing, gathered by goodwill Northern agencies, was arriving by the truckload at what was now dubbed "Freedom Village." In Cincinnati, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department a temporary injunction against evictions in Haywood County, and in Memphis, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting further evictions in Fayette County. But the lawless were also active...
Tough, zealously anti-Communist Ngo Dinh Diem, 59, had been in tight spots before; he kept his nerve. From guard posts on the grounds and from within the building, Diem's two loyal battalions of palace guards gave as good as they got, turning back truckload after truckload of insurgents trying to charge the gate to the grounds. Diem himself repaired to a radio station that he had thoughtfully installed for just such emergencies. "A group of junior officers revolted at 3 a.m.," he announced. "Liaison with my provincial commanders is temporarily disrupted." He ordered reinforcements to move...
...that I should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs to take back...