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...farm policy" that was criticized. But Benson was not subject to his most intense criticism until the last few months. Before, despite all criticism, Eisenhower had remained steadfastly in support of Benson; it was only this year, when Eisenhower himself started to be attacked, that Benson felt the full brunt of farmer discontent...
With Boulris incapacitated, the brunt of the Crimson running attack will fall to Walt Stahura and Sam Halaby. Both looked very good against Columbia, especially Stahura, who has averaged nearly seven yards per carry since switching from the quarterback...
...been made by Charlie Wilson genially hacking away at military expenditures that he had let get out of hand. Militarily, Sputnik, plus Khrushchev's bold rocket-rattling, gave a bald warning about the grim missile race to come. Beyond all this, the President was bound to bear the brunt of a special American reaction: the U.S. takes deep pride in its technical skills and technological prowess, in its ability to get things done-first. Now, despite all the rational explanations, there was a sudden, sharp national disappointment that Americans had been outshone by the Red moon. The disappointment would...
...satire is aimed directly at both the pretensions of monarchy and the stupidity of the levellers who would supplant it. Except with Shakespeare and G & S, kings tend to set one yawning, but the Duke of Plaza-Toro and the King of Barataria are rollicking good fun. The brunt of the satire falls on the Gondoliers themselves, however, and their attempts to run the principality of Barataria according to the maxim that "all departments are equal and every man is the head of his department" provide hilarious, and somewhat timely, satirical situations...
...elected to the newly formed Parliament and owed their power to him no longer, but to the electorate. Sukarno disowned even the Nationalist Party which originally was his creation. Only one group stayed slavishly loyal to him, no matter what he said-the Communist Party, which also escaped the brunt of his corruption charges for the reason that it has never been in the Cabinet. When Sukarno, impatient of confused and ineffectual democracy, proposed to run a "guided democracy" (with Sukarno as guide and leader), he insisted that Communists be included in his suprastate National Council...