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...more than a "peace-loving" Chinese Communist could stand. Every recent visitor to Peking, from Britain or India or Burma, kept softly urging China's Chou En-lai to ease tensions and stop being so provocative. What's more, they insisted on taking literally what he had said about peaceful coexistence and noninterference in others' domestic affairs, and even acted as if they expected him to live up to his promises...
...latest such distinguished visitor was Burma's mild, shrewd little Premier U Nu. Mao Tse-tung's China gave him the regular bear-hug welcome, and was aggrieved to find its guest full of gentle remonstrances...
...would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first. Last spring his respectable backers had enough. They resigned from the boards, refused him further financing. In June, his companies crashing around him, Peter abruptly put himself into a private sanatorium where no visitors were allowed. But one visitor got through anyway: Chief Detective Superintendent Robert Stevens of Scotland Yard's Fraud Squad, who arrested Baker for "uttering forged documents." Baker, it turned out, had forged the signatures of Docker and Mann to the bills of exchange. The forgeries had cost banks...
Protocol officers soon were deep in the matter of an honor guard to greet the visitor, since occupied Austria has no soldiers. First they thought of using cops, but switched to postmen after reflecting that cops might look like an arresting party. Finally, they went back to cops...
...when he was a soldier in World War II: his music-loving C.O. let him sing instead of shipping him to the front. One performance, in Butterfly, brought him his big chance: a buxom soprano watched the tenor sweep up his fragile leading lady and carry her offstage. The visitor was fascinated. "You must come and do it with me in Florence," she burbled. Then and there, Del Monaco earned a reputation more for force than for artistry. After a heavy workout in Florence, he moved to La Scala. His first season at the Met (1951-52) caused some terrible...