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Paraguay's Congress voted 26 to 23 to condemn the "police methods." Stroessner, who had been watching the debate minute by minute, decided democracy had gone too far, ordered units of the cavalry into Asunción, clamped on a state of siege, and Paraguay's democratic interlude was all over...
Swiss bankers publicly condemn such tipsters. Privately, the bankers contribute to the profitable buying fever. They commonly margin buyers at 30% to 40% or even less (the rigid U.S. margin rate: 90%). Their standard excuse for such easy terms is that all but a few listed European companies are so solidly rooted that a bust is unthinkable...
...this conspiracy, Veritas asserts, and it has thus come to favor "left-wingers" in all branches of University activity: in conferring honorary degrees, of fering lectureships, appointing to the Faculty, nominating for the Board of Overseers. Of course, Veritas members employ a fairly inclusive definition of "left-wing"; they condemn the "Welfare State" (social security, farm price supports) and and "subversive internationalism" (United Nations, foreign aid programs...
...Here is a story of a strange world and some troubled people," the dust jacket proclaims, "written by a young man who knows them at first hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever...
...words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...