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...from sight is still there. It begins to develop fears of strangers and of separation from its parents. At twelve months, the golden age, the baby has begun to walk and talk, and knows that the whole world awaits. Sometimes, clinging to a chair, waving a spoon in a fist, the one year old will throw back its head and crow in sheer delight...
Only hours after Shultz's testimony, Foreign Minister Gromyko made a speech before the Supreme Soviet (see WORLD) that was strikingly similar in tone and outlook. Both sides, it seemed, were showing a velvet glove, albeit with an iron fist inside...
...chairman later won standing ovations with a fist-pounding speech in which he vowed that there would be no more givebacks. Said he: "We're proud of the gains we've made over the years, because we've earned them." After naming the chairmen of the Big Three automakers, Bieber insisted, "I am deadly serious when I say it's their turn to do some giving...
...parity did not exclude WASPs from the mayorality of Boston. The reason for this is that the inclusive pluralism of American political culture--a democratic pluralism that encourages inter-ethnic power sharing--militating against political exclusivism and ethnic-oligarchy tendencies. So that in 1917 "Honey Fitz" (grandfather of the fist Irish-American president of the U.S., John Fitzgerald Kennedy) gave way to a WASP Republican, George Albee Hibbard...
...adeptly copied the dress code of the revolution, and the streets of the port capital town of St. George's are filled with remarkably accurate understudies for Che Guevara. The government's "mass rallies" have got the stem-winding syntax of fighting socialism down to the last fist-raising rounds of "Long live! Long live...