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Khrushchev was not drunk. Nor was there anything ebullient or exuberantly extrovert about his outbursts. His fury carried the same impression of cold steel as his handshake. What Mr. Khrushchev cannot stand is criticism or opposition of any kind. One man in a crowd shaking a fist at him was enough to provoke in Birmingham a tirade which must have revived for most people memories of Hitler's speeches before...
...altogether fitting to see the discredited Confederate flag beside Senator Eastland as you picture him raising the clenched fist of racial bigotry in a speech in Alabama...
...Thought for a minute that it was going to see a fist fight between Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne Hays and New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski. Trouble started when Hays accused Lieut. General (ret.) Joseph M. Swing, the U.S. Immigration Commissioner, of "arrogance," said he had been warned not to cross Swing lest the commissioner interfere with Hays's efforts to get citizenship for his adopted two-year-old German daughter. Cried Hays: "I will guarantee that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able...
...sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in hock to the Government for more than $1,200,000 in back taxes, Joe earned about $1,500 by belting the Cowboy out of the ring with a short jab to the belly. "It's an honest living," was the best he could say of his new occupation...
Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, co-author of the bill, cried that Ike was "insinuating that the Senate was subverted." Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender rose in bellowing defense of the President, crashing his meaty fist upon the desk with such force that a pageboy darted forth to rescue a nearby glass of water. Some Northern Republicans, e.g., New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who had voted for the bill, looked nervously toward their gas-consuming constituencies to watch how the voters would react to Ike's charge of impropriety...