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...time studying the difficult native language, but most of the xenophobic Albanians regard them as something straight out of a zoo. Chinese films are being shown at the numerous open-air cinemas (one visitor commented that Albania has "drive-in movies for pedestrians"), and in the darkness students frequently boo and whistle at the heavy propaganda...
...Boo Boo Balaguer!" The Caribbean republic was almost paralyzed. Steel shutters banged shut on shops; trees were felled across streets to block public transport. Mobs roamed the hot, narrow sidewalks and streets of Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), taunting cops and soldiers-who responded with tear gas and noise grenades-with the cry: "Boo Boo Balaguer...
...pages, contains 450,000 v. 600,000 entries. Gone are the gazetteer, the biographical dictionary, and 100,000 obsolete or nonlexical terms, such as the names of characters in Dickens. In are 100,000 brand-new terms, from astronaut, beatnik, boo-boo, countdown, den mother and drip-dry, to footsie, hard sell, mccarthyism, no-show, schlemiel, sit-in, wage dividend...
Whistles & Boos. With true Gallic instinct for the wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special...
Nikita Khrushchev scattered them with one loud boo and the remote thunder of atomic explosion deep inside Russia. After that, it was every neutralist for himself, and the Conference of the Nonaligned Nations was soon lined up in splinters tremulously blown one way or the other. Yugoslavia's President Tito condemned France for failing "to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations on the discontinuance of atomic tests." He was willing to forgive Russia, "because we can understand the reasons adduced by the government of the U.S.S.R." Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah echoed Tito...