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...weekend's dances are big news at Princeton--often occupying the same relative position on the Princetonian's front page as did the CRIMSON story last winter that President Kennedy had intervened concerning the "building on stilts." The CRIMSON treats student politicians with a tolerant and sometimes amused contempt; the Princetonian cooperates with their election campaigns and runs pictures of them all over the front page. The CRIMSON owns its own building, located a safe distance away from any other publications. The Prince pays $1100 a year for offices in the same building as those of the yearbook...
...maintained that de Gaulle has failed to strengthen military and popular allegiance to the state because he has appealed to the people as a personality while regarding the army "with more contempt than sympathy...
...showed his mettle. And yet, his concept of a strong U.N. executive had detractors, even angry foes, in the West as well as the East. Many Britons were bitter at U.N. "interference" during and after the Suez crisis in 1956. France's President de Gaulle, who sniffs his contempt for the "socalled United Nations," had grudging respect for Hammarskjold the man, but still heaped scorn on that whole vast category of what he calls apatrides-nonnationals whose patriotism is global, not local...
While more and more retailers stampede customers with discount prices and waylay them near home with suburban branches, the pride of San Francisco's Post Street, Gump's Inc., prospers by remaining as aloof as Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight years ago sold its only two branch stores (in Honolulu and Carmel, Calif.), and the nearest thing to a loss leader a Gump's customer can expect to find is a pair of pewter and brass candlesticks reduced from $250 to $125. Yet in a little more than...
Last week, with callous contempt for the opinion of the neutralists he had assiduously wooed, Khrushchev tossed aside the mask of the smiling conciliator and spoke in the bullying accents of raw power...