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...China's present stage, like too much oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad" as a prop to internal discipline...
...Arkansas people like a man to be a good ol' boy. There's nobody can sound more country than Chris. He's a good oP boy." Plain Talker. Though good oP Chris Finkbeiner made hay in Warren, it was Lee Ward ("He'd be a cinch if Lee was his last name") who hit pay dirt in Jonesboro, simply by taking on Orval Faubus in a tough, plain-talking speech. "The real reason why Orval Faubus occupied a local unit of government with armed troops," said Candidate Ward, "was revealed when he made substantially this statement...
...D.F.L. was heartened by an increase in National Farmers Union membership since 1956 from 35,000 to 41,000 families. Beyond that, the D.F.L. Senate ticket would be helped mightily by the fact that popular Governor Orville Freeman, running for his third term, is considered such a lead-pipe cinch that the leadership-starved Minnesota Republicans have yet to find a man who will launch a campaign against...
...publication of the Negro crime article [April 21] is a cinch to woo back the Faubus-following racists TIME lost during the Little Rock episode, who, no doubt, will take the article's title and figures literally...
...offer the free world than strength of arms. In its respect for local law the U.S. underscores its faith in law itself, and thus by example challenges local law to be its responsible best. At its responsible best, a free world rule of law can do more to cinch for all time the high ambitions of U.S. foreign policy than even arms and soldiers...