Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations Security Council accusing Egypt of plotting "aggression" and of organizing a "huge infiltration of Egyptian troops" (disguised, according to Sudanese sources, as camel traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled, may develop into armed conflict." In Khartoum students protested, Nasser's picture disappeared from shop windows, Radio Omdurman blared martial music...
From Illinois last week came another case affecting freedom of dress and/or press. Overruling the Cook County Criminal court, which held that a picture of a girl tricked up in sunglasses, a hat and the Stars and Stripes might breach the peace, the state Supreme Court allowed that Modern Man magazine had not desecrated the flag and could not therefore be held guilty of intent to provoke a disturbance...
...What to do? The hole is too large to be plugged by a finger, and, anyway, that technique has already been used by the capitalistic Dutch boy who saved the plutocratic fields of Holland from the sea. Chin Lan Tse is resourceful: she applies her maidenly breast to the breach and stoppers it. She almost freezes to death, but "her heart burns like fire," sustaining her until rescue comes...
Actor Quinn emotes piteously with his left eye (his right one is matted shut by makeup that realistically puffs, thickens and distorts his entire head to a sub-Neanderthal bestiality), and it seems a shocking breach of manners when Esmeralda, Quasimodo's barefooted gypsy love (amiably played by Gina Lollobrigida), recoils at sight of him. Actor Quinn has done too thorough a job of making his monster human...
...unlikely to create any new political institutions that would set NATO on the road to supranational power. But the summit conference will almost certainly produce a pledge of closer political collaboration; if meticulously honored, it could create a state of mind that would rule out recurrences of the Suez breach. What is at stake is less the immediate problem of the West's defense against all that Sputnik threatens; rather, it is a rallying of the whole non-Communist West, now temporarily demoralized, to meet the Russian challenge...