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...mile or two in midtown Manhattan is still largely given over to antique stores and saloons, the real antiques being the saloons. In these is preserved a way of life that belongs more to a village than a metropolis. The "El" that protected this enclave like a leaky umbrella was a symbol of that way of life; its antiquary, interpreter and poet was a sometime newspaperman named John McNulty...
...ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither of us wants war, but our strength is that you fear it more." Protected-at least in their own mind-by the umbrella of U.S. fear, the Soviets might well succumb to the temptation to test American resolution with brushfire wars against the weaker, and more vulnerable outposts of the free world...
Luckily, Colin Gordon seems less serious about his role as her crisp BBC-announcer finance; with a formidably stiff upper lip, a brandished umbrella, and a violent nasal accent he successfully spoofs exactly the roles he usually plays. Terry-Thomas, as a genial philanderer, briefly does much the same thing...
...Black Umbrella. Like other speakers at the conference, Sumual insisted that Sukarno and Hatta reconcile their differences. "If the worst comes to the worst," added one of the colonels, "they might as well be replaced by a new national leader." The colonels' favorite choice for such a leader: the taciturn and widely respected Sultan of Djokjakarta...
...Hatta privately for two hours and requested Hatta's good offices in persuading the rebel colonels to obey constitutional authority again. Hatta agreed, provided that Sukarno would forgo his "unconstitutional" approach to Indonesia's problems. After the meeting they strolled out together, Sukarno armed with a black umbrella, the traditional symbol for Javanese aristocracy. For the assembled photographers they shook hands several times. But when the photographers asked them to join hands like brothers, they refused...