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...cuffed them back to the airport terminal. Soon several of Kasavubu's cabinet ministers were on the scene, urging Katanga's boss to return to the talks. "If that's the way you run the Congo, good luck," retorted Tshombe. He sat down in an old wicker armchair and refused to budge or even to eat until he was freed. "I am a prisoner," he declared hotly...
After two foodless days in the wicker chair, Tshombe agreed to accompany one of Kasavubu's aides back to town. But he insisted stoutly he would not return to the conference table. Mobutu's soldiers just shrugged. They surrounded Coquilhatville with machine guns and roadblocks, blandly advised all the politicians that not a single one of them would leave town until they reached some kind of agreement...
...broad masses of the people-95% of Pakistan-positively do not want a return to parliamentary democracy. If we can run a country without a party system, we shall be a happier people." Leaning forward intently in a wicker chair on the terrace of the President's House in East Pakistan, Pakistan Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan was discoursing on his favorite subject: the evils of politics...
...works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments in the Tuileries for Josephine Bonaparte. In scope, the collection runs from Paolo Uccello's geometric sketch of the 32 surfaces of the mazzocchio, a circular wicker framework used by Florentines as a base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) of a battle scene to be reproduced in epic proportions in a Florentine palace. In subject, the galaxy includes saints...
...white bedroom furniture from the Georgetown N Street house in a pale pink room with white woodwork and old-fashioned chintz curtains. Little John, now 9½ Ibs. and smiling broadly, was bedded down next door in a white room with white woodwork. He slept in the same white wicker bassinette that was used by his mother and his sister...