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...Common Market. But as he rose in the vast seaside sports stadium at Brighton, he astonished his socialist "brothers" by the passion of his 84-minute speech. The middle-road intellectuals and union leaders who have shared his views and fought his battles sat back in ashen-faced disgust as Gaitskell, longtime champion of NATO and other internationalist policies, piped the party down the road to timorous isolation from Europe. Hugh Gaitskell's fiercest foes, the leftists who still repeat the late Aneurin Bevan's taunt that he is "a desiccated calculating machine," led tumultuous rounds of applause...
...shot down by the Red border cops. Wounded, he was left to bleed to death by the Communists, while U.S. soldiers, under strict instructions to avoid "incidents," were not allowed to cross a few feet into East Berlin and help the dying man. When a wave of disgust swept Germany, the Allies responded by a feeble gesture: they stationed an ambulance at Checkpoint Charlie in the U.S. sector to pick up any future wounded fugitive and take him not to freedom but back to East Berlin for treatment. Even this token move was proved hollow last week...
...boos from the 18,894 spectators. Many had not seen the knockout punch; those who had felt cheated. In 258 locations across the U.S., some 500,000 people, who had paid between $4 and $10 each to witness the fight on closed-circuit TV, started filing out in bitter disgust. "It was the stinkingest exhibition I ever saw in my life," said one. At Brooklyn's Fox Theater, 3,800 people did not even have that to say; their screen went blank seconds after the fight started. Screaming for their money back, they staged a melee that brought...
...last week all of Algeria's wrangling leaders seemed chillingly aware of the nation's disgust. Ex-Premier Benkhedda, despite his enmity toward Ben Bella, pointed the way to unity by going out and voting. And fiery army commander Colonel Houari Boumedienne kept himself and his Communist-equipped troops relatively out of sight. Only when the vote was in did Boumedienne announce a drive to crush antigovernment resistance in the region around Algiers...
...Never before in the history of the Commonwealth," Hughes claimed, "has there been such a tremendous response to a signature drive. The unprecedented total represents the disgust of the people of this state for routine party politics and an enormous concern for the future of humanity." The response, Hughes said, indicated "a very real possibility of victory in November...