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From a different perspective, Italian Columnist Levi thinks there is a "fundamental fear that for the second consecutive time, the U.S. will draw its own lessons from history. It applied lessons learned in Europe in the '40s and '50s to Asia and found to its dismay Asia was not Europe. To extract itself from the Asian mistake, it had to play a balance-of-power maneuver. The fear is that Washington may apply the lessons learned in Asia in the '60s to Europe in the '70s. A balance-of-power game in Europe would...
Sales trips follow, with Sasounian sowing sample teeth and producing angry instant hoplites, to the delight or dismay of the likes of Stalin and Beria, Ben-Gurion, Nasser, SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther in Paris, and Dwight David Eisenhower, who watches the demonstration on a quiet corner of the White House lawn...
...consulting the kids first." In fact, the Bureau was planning at one point to compile extensive records on kids in every neighborhood in the city. They wanted to know where the kids hung out, who the leaders were, what kinds of things the kids were doing. But to their dismay, the staff protested over the possible misuse of such records, and the idea had to be abandoned. "When I heard about that, I called up Kerry and told him ain't nobody filling out anything on my kids without me knowing about it," Saundra Graham says...
...Jewish girl, to the strains of that old piano favorite, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke..." On the trip from New York to Miami for their honeymoon, Lila gradually reveals her clumsy, frumpy self (and the wide range of Berlin's comic talents), to the growing dismay of her husband. She proudly thrusts her bare breasts at him in the car, nearly causing an accident. She chews gum loudly, eats candy in bed, and constantly chatters about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage. Lila suffers from a fatal form of Midas disease...
Despite the impressive victory totals, the performance against Brandeis was sloppy, and at times abysmal. And the frustration of close bouts (there were seven 5-4 bouts, a good indication that the bouting is of poor quality) justified Marion's dismay...