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Water Leveler. Spotting a member of a delegation from Ghana at the table, he raised a toast to "Africa and all countries fighting for their independence." Said Khrushchev: "Our hearts are on their side. People are the same all over the world. One cannot tell a czar from anyone else. All people look alike in the bathtub...
Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
...face of increasingly mounting evidence that we are falling dangerously behind is worse than folly. For either it is ignorant of our true position or merely chooses to disregard the dangers. In either case, it continues in complacency where urgency is called for. The 'missiles Czar' proposed more than a year ago has proved a farcical prescription. Moreover, the public is confused and distrusts any government statement of strength. Furthermore, the strength of representative government is itself sapped. A successful democracy must rely upon an informed electorate. Whether acting from motives of concealment or from comforting delusion, the Administration discredits...
...clock: In Harvard 1, Associate Professor Pipes evokes the golden days of imperial Russin, when a czar was a czar and a serf a serf, History 155b starts with mystic Alexander 1 and continues until the debacle of 1917 marked the end of all good things. The errant anglonmle may emerge from the Stuart era to listen to Professor Brower disuss in Sever 31, eighteenth century poetry, from Dryden to Wordsworth...
...refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 miles from Moscow, and the time was the year of peace 1913. The quiet gardens surrounding his parents' summer house, legend had it, had once served as a battlefield for the Czar's Cossacks and Napoleon's retreating French. Near by, graves dotted the ground...