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...suite at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, old Truman aides gathered around. The old ghostwriters, headed by Washington Lawyer Charles Murphy, went to work on a speech. As the visitor rode down the street one day, he spotted an old friend. It took several honks of the horn to get the man's eye, and then ex-President Harry Truman said to ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "You're the hardest pickup I ever encountered...
...name: Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Almost two-thirds of Turin's 735,000 people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat's Cinzano vermouth, shops at a Fiat drugstore, leaves for Milan over the Fiat-controlled autostrada (toll road...
...Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last words, growled out as she collapsed: "I won't be any properer than...
...Poof!" "Mr. Georgescu," said the visitor, "if you want to see your children, this can be arranged, and I am proposing to you the following deal: you may see your children within the year if you will agree to collaborate with...
...four years at hard labor, he refused to resign as mayor and announced that he would keep right on running the city from his cell. But by this time nobody was listening. When he entered gloomy old Dedham jail last week, he was forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city council president was authorized to act as mayor in his stead. Having accomplished the all-but-impossible trick of exiling himself while in office, defiant Mayor Peirce vanished, still talking, behind the jail...