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...many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three years after he stormed out of the 22nd Party Congress and thereby ignited China's momentous ideological feud with Russia. Now he was back, as cautious and cool as a man defusing a bomb...
Striding into an Anchorage bank last summer, an Alaskan state trooper pulled out his pistol and seized $6,000. The money belonged to the local bar association, and the trooper was there on orders of the Alaska Supreme Court, which has stirred up a raging feud by its effort to put Alaska's 211 lawyers under the court's tight control. So determined is the court that it has even tried to disband the state bar association...
...Feud. Ralph Yarborough gives back every bit as much as he takes. "Let's show the world," he cries, "that old Senator Bush can't send Little Georgie down here to buy a Senate seat." He slams Bush's membership in "the fat Houston clubs," nags at Bush for his extensive billboard campaign, tells audiences: "You can find everything on those billboards except the word 'Republican.' He's got it there so small that you've got to pull over to the side of the road, stop, get out of your...
Guilty Plea. This rapid growth has involved the soft-drink makers in a feud with the sugar industry, since drinks for the weight watchers contain such sugar substitutes as saccharin and cyclamates. Sugar refiners are spending $1,000,000 on ads to downgrade the benefits of diet drinks, claiming that "trying to lose weight by drinking them is like trying to lighten an airplane by emptying the ashtrays." Last week Royal Crown Cola, whose Diet-Rite has captured half of the diet-cola market, retaliated with its own ads. Calling its critics "sugar daddies," Royal Crown said...
...Singapore's racial split widens to include the whole federation, not even airplanes will be any help. The feud between Malays and Chinese could then become a greater threat to the federation than Sukarno. To prevent all Malaysia from running amok, Lee and the Tunku called on all Malaysians to cooperate with the central government. "The first phase of the rioting is over," Lee said. "Our business now is to restore confidence. If order isn't restored...