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Trujillo and the Reds have played pata-cake before. In the postwar flush of good will toward Moscow, the dictator praised Russia "as one of the forces for progress," and legalized Communists as "eloquent rebuttal to calumniators who accuse the Dominican Republic of not being a democratic country." That honeymoon with the Reds lasted less than a year, after which Trujillo turned about once more, again banned the Communists and even set up an investigating Committee on Un-Dominican Activities...
...loyal Moslems who side with them that they would not be left at the mercy of the F.L.N. if they voted to remain with France and lost. To Moslems who might vote for outright independence, it was a warning that their victory would not give them the whole cake; the oil regions and rich farm areas would in all likelihood stay in French hands, leaving the apostles of independence only the Moslem-dominated areas, which are mostly desert, mountains, and arid land...
...jazz-loving daughter (youngest of five) of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Hisanaga Shimazu, 25, tall, thin, $50-a-month bank clerk; in a 20-minute Shinto ceremony in a Tokyo restaurant attended by Hirohito, Empress Nagako and Crown Prince Akihito, followed by a Western reception complete with cake and cutting...
...solution was reached-and there was only one reasonable solution. Said the Raleigh News and Observer: "In effect, he [the Negro] was cordially invited to the house but definitely not to the table. And to say the least, this was complicated hospitality. You can't have your chocolate cake...
...races from the Sound to a sheltered inland pond, and there Knapp's sister was disqualified for thunking into a chicken coop. Today, the most devout followers are joined in the no-dues, no-assets Frostbite Yacht Club. The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e., Upholder of the Right of the Port Tack (to the skipper with the least regard for racing rules), Order of Sparta (to the racing committee that laid out the most uncomfortable course...