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Echoing the growing sentiments of many gloomy Midwestern Republicans who are muttering in their bier, Kansas' Republican Senator Andy Schoeppel -who is also chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee-suggested to his party brethren on a TV show that they should steer clear of President Eisenhower and his program if they want to be re-elected in November...
Crying at the Bier. Throughout the three speeches, Khrushchev revealed himself as a man still trying to squeeze free from his own complicity in Stalin's crimes, while well aware that he had gone too far in his sensational, weepy indictment of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress. What is needed now, said Khrushchev, is a balanced view on Stalin, "the positive side which we support and highly value and the negative side which we criticize and condemn." Stalin, he said, had to act in "an atmosphere of fierce struggle against class enemies and their agents in the party...
Throughout their act, they spoof their own material, run in gag numbers kidding singing commercials and California's ad-mad mortuaries: "At Goldheim's you can lie on your crisp, moisture-free bier and know that your bier is Goldheim's, the dry bier...
While the body lay in state in Mexico City for a day, 200,000 people jammed the street or filed slowly past the bier During the burial a huge mob pressed forward, knocking over tombstones and trampling graves. On the fringe of the crowd vendors hawked pictures, balloons, bean-filled tacos, lemonade and ice cream...
March 12, 1932 was a raw, sunless day in Paris, and the city's restless tempo was slowed to a funereal rustle as Frenchmen filed into la Salle de l'Horlage at the Quai d'Orsay to stare at the bier of the illustrious pactmaker. Aristide Briand. All Paris seemed to be wrapped in a shroud of melancholy over the passing of the great democrat-all but a luncheon party of American. British and Swedish bankers who waited in edgy silence at the Hotel du Rhin to confer with an autocratic emperor of finance. "Match King...