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Hopes. The newsmen were waiting on the liner's aft veranda deck, shivering slightly in the 39° cold, when Panyushkin, hatless and inconspicuous in a long blue overcoat, hove into sight in tow of a Cunard pressagent. When he spotted the group, he fled to a lower deck. The reporters followed, and cornered...
...hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...
...Stole just about everything portable, including fire-hose nozzles. ¶Hacked off metal and plastic name plates identifying equipment. ¶Tried to pry up the metal plaque on the veranda deck marking the spot where the Japs' surrender was signed. ¶Scribbled "compositions" and scratched their initials on newly painted bulkheads. ¶Scarred the hard enamel of the 16-in. guns so badly that the muzzles had to be raised out of reach. ¶Set off the general alarm, which sent the cursing crew dashing to battle stations...