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...again Kadar's Russian masters moved to his rescue. "By night," reported TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark from Budapest, "the city is usually quiet and no Hungarians are abroad after the 9 o'clock curfew. Late last Saturday night and early Sunday morning it was different. The sporadic flourish of small arms fire and an occasional artillery shot echoed and re-echoed from the hills of Buda. Reinforcements of Soviet tanks were moving into the city. They came because Budapest streets were littered on Saturday afternoon with leaflets calling for a 'total strike' in the name...
...Libyan police surrounded the Egyptian embassy, the colonel took up position on the roof with a machine gun, while leaflets poured out into the streets of Tripoli exhorting the citizens to protest. For three days the siege went on, with the colonel appearing at intervals on the roof to flourish his machine gun and peer hopefully down the street for rioting demonstrators to answer his call. None came, and Colonel Sadek disconsolately agreed to depart...
...flourish of trumpets, a, bronze bowl flaring with fire, a grey whir of pigeons beating upward above the banners of 68 nations, a parade of athletes swearing allegiance to a sportsman's creed-all this proclaimed last week that the 1956 Olympic Games had begun...
...years of Communist rule. The fact that the whole nation rebelled could not be concealed, veiled, or transformed by slanders, and the entire world could hear the echoes of the savage repression. Even party comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced that Russia was now "ready to examine" President Eisenhower's "open sky" aerial inspection plan. deployment" between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, which would allow the West to inspect satelliteland and a sliver of Russia, but permit...
...must drink, it should be done with flourish as well as with relish. This is somewhat difficult at Harvard because the Faculty Committee on Athletics outlawed "conspicuous drinking" at football games...