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...tangled white curls were clamp with perspiration, his face was pale. The pouches beneath his eyes were dark; his voice was hoarse but strong. -See THE NATION, The Ev & Barry Show...
Pent-Up Odor. Obviously fearful that to call Jenkins before the Rules Committee might be to embarrass seriously the Democratic Administration, the Democrats voted down the Republican effort. In so doing, they chose to clamp down a lid on the official investigation of Bobby Baker rather than let it run its full course. Conceivably, there could be nothing more to it than was already known. But in putting on a lid, the Democrats were running a risk; if that lid ever blew off, the pent-up odor could be overpowering...
...state of business and the uncertainty of politics in Canada have perplexed investors for some time. One year ago, a balance-of-payments crisis forced the Diefenbaker government to clamp on a dollar-devaluing austerity program, and less than one month ago, some far-out budget proposals (TIME, June 21) shook the new Pearson government. But as a whole the Canadian economy looks healthier than in half a dozen years...
Diem's reply was to clamp virtual martial law over Saigon. All the city's main pagodas were sealed off, and barbed-wire barricades blocked off streets. On the radio, Diem blamed Quang Due's "tragic death" on "certain minds, poisoned by seditious propaganda." Refusing to yield to Buddhist demands, Diem added: "Buddhism in Viet Nam finds its fundamental safeguards in the constitution, of which I personally am the guardian...
Though Khrushchev was plainly out to make Evtushenko the scapegoat, the campaign against the poet was only part of a new. systematic attempt to clamp strict party controls on the theater, music, art, book publishing, industrial design, and every other field in which young Communists might be tempted to voice independent thoughts. It was once more that "strange time." as Evtushenko wrote in 1960. "when common integrity could be called courage...