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...Administration is leading America toward the Communist state as if Stalin & Co. were planning the moves. Playing tunefully on the chords of taxation, spending, human liberty, and sharing the wealth, General MacArthur bewailed how well the "blueprints of Marx and Lenin" were being implemented here. He turned the flail of generalization on foreign policy with the powerful, if inaccurate, charges that our foreign aid has not gained any converts and that we are leaving our boys in Korea to die while the enemy goes unpunished. The wildness and lack of documentation in these accusations lends them a boomerang effect...
...Russian Flail. In Europe, the foundations of society were shaking in a different way. Speculating on strained relations between England and Germany in 1898, Adams winged off one of his many arrows of insight: "So we can foresee a new centralization, of which Russia is one pole, and we the other, with England between." Later, on a visit to Moscow, he concluded: "The sum of my certainty is that America has a very clear century of start over Russia, and that western Europe must follow us for a hundred years, before Russia can swing her flail over the Atlantic...
...more triumph for the extremist Hindu Mahasabha Party, which opposes Nehru, accuses him of appeasing Pakistan. Even politicians who have been Nehru's friends have begun to turn against him on the Pakistan issue. Oldtime Congress Leader Tushar Kanti Ghosh used his daily paper, Amrita Bazar, to flail Nehru and urge war. He asked readers.for their opinions, got 200,000 replies, 87% of which favored armed attack or "police action" against...
...Shaw of Cleveland. Just because she couldn't whistle, she complained to the Yellow Cab Co., she could never get a taxi. The company consulted its drivers. Yep, they agreed, it was true-hardly anybody knows how to whistle down a cab anymore. Even the men stand mutely, flail the air with a newspaper and hope. "And the women never could whistle," added Cabbie Joseph Likover. "They just run along the curb and wave...
...alltime low of 70 last season, was going to shrink further still. The modest wartime boom was really over, but high production costs remained. Producers looked in vain for the freehanded angels who had gone with the boom. Reported Variety last week: "Nearly all [producers] have to ... flail the underbrush for money...