Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honor to Marine Sergeant Peter Connor, who saved his comrades by hugging a grenade to his body-was hardly an appropriate one for a speech aimed at the Administration's critics, but Johnson seized it nonetheless. "Thousands of miles away from the battlefield on which he fell, his countrymen debate the course of the war he fought in," said the President. "The debate will go on, and it will have its price. It is a price our democracy must be prepared to pay, and that the angriest voices of dissent should be prepared to acknowledge...
Napoleon Bonaparte, something of a master at the game himself, once complained that "all Italians are plunderers." Italian bankers often seem to agree with this ungenerous assessment of their countrymen. "Every citizen," says an old banking maxim, "is a swindler until he produces documents to prove the contrary." Taking that attitude, Italian banks, including those owned by the state, have rarely opened their cash drawers for small personal loans...
Only the Score. Back home, the Latin American Presidents helped spread the message of self-help that Lyndon Johnson had so effectively implanted in the face-to-face sessions. Breaking his custom of addressing his countrymen only once a year, Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz went on the radio as soon as he returned home to stress that Latin America must bear the chief responsibility for its own future. Said President Fernando Belaunde Terry to his fellow Peruvians: "The declaration of Punta del Este is only the score. Success will depend on how we play...
...Grim grin" is the way some of his stiff-lipped countrymen seem to pronounce his name, offering a capsule description of the man's work. Graham Greene's fiction over the past four decades has alternated between pain and painful pleasure. He has explored the depths of damnation-and salvation-but with gusto, he has also turned out masterly, this-worldly entertainments. Perhaps the difference between the two is not really as great as it sometimes seems...
...familiar, if not quite believable, story to Rhodesia's rebellious whites. The Brit ish declared one against them in 1965 without much noticeable effect, and the United Nations Security Council imposed another one against them four months ago, ditto. Last week, however, Prime Minister Ian Smith advised his countrymen that they could expect an inch or so of pinch. "It seems as though the whole business is going to be drawn out longer than we thought," said Smith. "I do not think it necessarily means austerity, but I believe that Rhodesians must accept that there may be some changes...