Managing men, arms and supplies prepared him for the responsible leadership he would later demonstrate during a forty-plusyear career as a pioneer of the mutual fund industry.
"It would look like it couldn't be removed, but it could," he said, later demonstrating by taking the bicycle planter out to spend the night on a pole at 23rd Street and 41st Avenue near his studio in Long Island City, with a pot of yellow chrysanthemums in the holder.
And, as Mr Nixon later demonstrated when he sent a note to the junta expressing "warm love", he did not find the coup too upsetting.Mr Papadopoulos, who had been a colonel in the Greek army, took on a succession of jobs after the coup, including prime minister and president, and, after King Constantine was deposed (accused of plotting a counter-coup), made himself regent.
A double-save just over 15 minutes later demonstrated Howard's reflexes and bravery, but he could do nothing with Loïc Rémy's 72nd-minute strike into the far corner.
He showed no mercy when sealing Masters success one year ago, just as glory at the US Open two months later demonstrated the matching of God-given ability with ferocious competitive spirit.
But his second goal, ten minutes later, demonstrated his unusual ability to project calm while in turbulent motion.
We had, Michael Gove wrote a fortnight later, "demonstrated, beyond challenge, that the wonderfully liberating education offered by our great public schools is overwhelmingly the preserve of the wealthy".
Some Pakistani estimates put the civilian death toll much higher – plausibly, given the tendency to claim as "militants" victims later demonstrated to be nothing of the sort.
