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...fortnight, browsed through Titoland's economy, then headed home with a backward glance surprising for a capitalist. Said he: "These people believe they will eventually get all the bugs out of their system. I don't believe they will, but nobody's going to tell 'em ... They're going to find out the hard way . . . No use throwing rocks at these guys...
...good-and when he is bad he is horrid. He is never dull. He plays a gamboling, gambling game that hypnotizes the spectators. He rarely plays it safe. Unlike the cautious Hogan, Snead likes to take chances. He usually aims at the pin. Says he: "You play 'em for the money, or you play 'em safe. That's why you win and why you lose." This week Snead faced perhaps the biggest test of his career in the U.S. Open...
...make foreigners understand English is to shout it. He complains: "The trouble with these people is that you can't talk to them. You use a simple word like 'dolly' or 'Mole-Richardson boom,' and the interpreter takes five minutes telling 'em what you said." He also finds that all his Italian workers have a lamentable tendency to talk back at the same time: "I told 'em, 'Look, why don't you guys get a chairman?' They looked at me and finally one guy asks, 'What...
...McCarthy's a liar. They're all liars. They oughtta hang 'em all." It was the mimicer talking. "That Welsh now. He's from Boston, but he's no good. A Republican, that's what...
...have notably done-on a Titoist divorce between Peking and Moscow. But it may not always be so. In Russia's help to China there is calculated restraint; Moscow has a vested interest in keeping Red China dependent on Russia, but Red China's leaders have talked em phatically and often of their plans to make Red China capable of supplying itself and all of Asia. Red China has complained that it needs more from Russia than Russia is giving (money credits are only $60 million to $100 million a year), and Peking's People...