Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even such arch-revisionists as the Yugoslavs are treated with courtesy. Two years ago, the dependents of Soviet diplomats were evacuated as Red Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve foreign embassies were besieged by Red Guards at one time or another. There is also...
Abram charged that the students "have acted without prior complaint to the administration and even now refuse all discussions regarding the ten demands which they have made upon the university...
Neither of these books is awaited with the eagerness that attends Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (TIME, May 17), which comes on the scene next month after the greatest prepublication fanfare since Death of a President. The plot tells the sexual misadventures of Alex Portnoy from priapic adolescence in Newark to insatiable maturity in New York City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation...
Coercing, Exploiting. In a civil antitrust suit filed at the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Control Data said that IBM's "manipulations" had caused it "substantial and irreparable" losses and demanded treble damages. The complaint charges IBM with 37 violations of the Sherman Act, accuses the company of "coercing," "interfering," "intimidating" and "exploiting." Among other things, Control Data asserts that IBM sold or leased some models at a loss to hinder competition, that it interfered in its customers' negotiations with competitors, and that it was guilty of "misrepresenting the status and performance" of its own prematurely announced...
...STATION ZEBRA doesn't afford much cause for complaint: its faults are all small and obvious, as are its virtues, and if you're in love with your date and can happily stare at him or her during the slow stretches, a relatively pleasant evening can be had for the price of a pair of tickets...