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...Roach" and "The Fly." But the youngsters at the Peppermint have revived The Twist and parodied it into a replica of some ancient tribal puberty rite. The dancers scarcely ever touch each other or move their feet. Everything else, however, moves. The upper body sways forward and backward and the hips and shoulders twirl erotically, while the arms thrust in, out, up and down with the pistonlike motions of a baffled bird keeper fighting off a flock of attacking blue jays...
Nothing Hostile. In his performance at the U.N. General Assembly, Frondizi was no less adroit, carefully tuning his remarks to his audience. He quickly identified himself with the world's underdeveloped nations ("No backward country is fully independent"); he showed proper concern about Castro's Cuba by calling for "representative democracy in the entire American continent," then softened the sting by again insisting on absolute nonintervention.* As for the cold war, said Frondizi, "when we proclaim the fact that we are members of the Western and Christian world, we are not doing so in order to create antagonistic...
...once could count on regular majorities in the Assembly. Today, with U.N. membership risen from 51 to 99 (see box), the Assembly is dominated by Asia's and Africa's "new" nations-unstable, unpredictable, backward not only economically but backward in their acquaintance with liberty, their experience in government, and their ability to defend themselves. That is the setting of the battle which Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson, and President Kennedy himself were fighting in the aftermath of Hammarskjold's death...
...straight at the listener. His eyes pop open, his hands grip the arms of his chair in sweaty terror. His eyebrows shoot up past his hairline. As the final shattering wallop thunders in his head, the train runs right smack over him and he topples backward in a shuddering trance...
...China's leaders these days no longer talk of the great leap forward, but of the "law of undulating progress." It means, presumably, that every economic leap is inevitably followed by a backward stagger. Most of China's hapless millions were wondering when the staggering would stop and the leaps begin...