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Someone should consider Henry Cabot Lodge for the next Republican President. He might be prevailed upon to consider changing one thankless job for another. Furthermore, he just might...
...Hired Hoodlums." To New York's Powell-weary Democratic organization, the breaking point came when Powell supported Dwight Eisenhower for President in 1956. Searching around for a Democratic candidate against the big man from Harlem, Tammany came upon Councilman Brown, whose civil rights performance surpasses his oratory, e.g., he is co-author of New York City's antidiscrimination housing...
...French Riviera, in Jordan, Lebanon, British Aden, Cyprus and Kenya), the officials produced the following: "Nasser is a criminal who forcibly became the leader of his country. Nasser's gangs are never successful except in destruction, ruin and bankruptcy. Dear, sweet Jimmy Boy Nasser, a curse be upon you, a plague be upon you and all your household...
...constant exchange of radio invective, the ceaseless calls to arms fell upon Arab nerves already raw from poverty, humiliation, despair. In Lebanon, occasional bombs still went off, and 1,700 glad-to-be-gone U.S. marines left their fly-ridden bivouac in the dusty hills above Beirut and marched down to the beach for evacuation. There were hints that another marine battalion would shortly be withdrawn from Lebanon to the "floating reserve" of the Sixth Fleet...
Rising a majestic 19,565 feet into the clouds from the hot and dry plains of Tanganyika is snow-capped Kilimanjaro -the Mountain of Brightness in Swahili, a Hemingway setting to U.S. readers, the Seat of God to the Chagga tribesmen who live upon its lower slopes. Chagga legend has it that the great god Ruwa liberated mankind by smashing a vessel in which the first humans were imprisoned and scattering them over the mountainside. Actually, the 360,000 people of Chagga-land are a mixture of many tribes who for some five centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro...