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Times"), then claps on his black bowler, picks up his black umbrella and, looking for all the world like a department-store manager from Sloane Square, scissors briskly off to the Met. If the weather is bad, he will take the subway, often stopping off at a sleazy hashery for a cup of hot milk with a dash of coffee-much to the dismay of his staff, who feel that to be seen in such a place is beneath the dignity of his station...
Unwanted Power. The Senate zeroed in on the reserves. "We can't permit the six-month reserve-training program," said Missouri's Stuart Symington, "to become an umbrella for avoiding active service." Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, prestigious Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall sponsored an amendment to the record $58.2 billion defense budget giving the President authority to call individual reservists to active duty for as long as two years. The Senate voted, 66 to 21, to adopt the amendment, which exempts men who served...
...prospect in the early part of the 1960s-a Europe making massive strides toward unity with the strong prospect that its geographical boundaries would be expanded to include the United Kingdom and certain other European nations-a Europe growing prosperous with its burgeoning Common Market under the protective umbrella of NATO...
...when kings have gone out of style and the craft of kingship is all but forgotten, it is the good fortune of Thailand-and of the free world-that the present occupant of the nine-tiered umbrella throne, ninth monarch of the 184-year-old Chakri dynasty, not only takes the business of being a king seriously but has taken it upon himself to mold his emerging nation's character. In the musical five-tone Thai tongue, his full name rings like the roll of monsoon thunder...
...think you see Mary Poppins descending, umbrella and valise in hand, onto Brattle Street, you're wrong. It's just a resident of 83 Brattle Street trying to get her wordly possessions out of the building without benefit of an elevator...