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...wanted to call me to let me know he loved me and my family. He said, 'Bob, I hope this is the best Christmas you've ever had. You've had it tough. The reason I wanted to talk to you was I wanted to wipe your slate clean of money I loaned you.' " According to Baker, Kerr told him that the $50,000 was payment "for the many wonderful things you have done...
...President was conferring in the dining room with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, whom he had just named Ambassador to the United Nations. For 40 frustrating minutes Hurd watched L.B.J. get up from his chair, sit down, get up, pace the floor, tug at his ear, rub his nose, wipe his brow-in short, do everything but sit for his portrait...
...earth, blows at my body, an imperial decree imposed on my head and the rebukes of a certain senior general piercing my ears. Are there any more secret weapons? Bring them all out together. The universe is cleared of all dust. If you do not believe, please wipe your eyes...
...eastern Chinese city of Nanking (pop. 1.5 million), the words and pictures of violence gave way to violence itself. The Czechoslovakian news agency reported that some 500,000 workers had poured into the city, determined to wipe out Mao's local Red Guard contingent and end its harassing techniques. For four days, the two factions fought furiously in the streets. More than 60,000 prisoners were taken by both sides, and many were tortured in the best Chinese fashion. Said the Czechs: "Their fingers, noses and ears were chopped off, their tongues cut out." Japan's Kyodo news...
Died. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, 65, Polish patriot, wartime head of the Polish exile government who returned home in 1945, joined a coalition regime (as Vice Premier) with the Communists in hopes of moderating Red influence, saw rigged elections wipe out his Peasant Party before threats to his life forced him into exile once more in 1947, this time in the U.S., where he spent his years lecturing and writing; of a stroke; in Chevy Chase...