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...Francisco and Los Angeles). In Manhattan, where Scelba was welcomed by a cheering crowd, eager greeters pumped his hands and bussed his glowing pink cheeks. Some excavation workers called out: "Hi Mario! Paesan!" In two garment factories Italian-American seamstresses welcomed him with kisses, songs, dances and sentimental weeping. Amidst all the emotion Scelba shed a happy tear or two himself...
...hungry. We must be able to win in time of prosperity. We must be a party of principle and program-and that we have not been. We cannot do it by this form of political cannibalism in which we spend our time chewing each other up." Having chewed, amidst uproarious applause, he stalked over to Butler and spat: "You stuck your nose in something that was none of your business." Chairman Butler flushed with anger. "I didn't realize I had said anything that would offend anyone," he snapped later...
Faure was thus making ratification, in effect, a vote of confidence, giving to the Senate a power it does not formally possess-to depose a Premier. The stubby little Premier pressed on, words tumbling out in a brilliant display of impromptu rebuttal. Then he stepped down amidst a crash of applause. Superbly timed, his outburst checked the gathering emotional opposition. To those who complained that the French will was cowed by allies' threats, Pinay retorted: "The French will? Why should it only be revealed in the power to say no-no to our own proposal...
...nearby chicken coop, two hand grenades arched through the night air, down among the circling dancers. The explosions toppled dancers like ninepins; 22 lay groaning and bloody on the bare earth. One 22-year-old girl was dead. The survivors dragged the wounded to shelter in the house amidst a hail of Sten gunfire. In the darkness the two attackers slipped off toward Egyptian-held Gaza, 14 miles away...
...some sort of monkey business in my department that I should have known about." The "monkey business" apparently concerned kickbacks to the News's circulation men from dealers who wanted early delivery of the paper. (Three months ago an assistant in the News's circulation department resigned amidst a flurry of such talk.) Said Annenberg: "How ridiculous would I be-if I jeopardized my salary for what they claim I took?" There was also a squabble over the Get-Together Club, an organization of News distributors that Annenberg had formed in 1945 and which, two years later...