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Timely Reference. Most forthright was chunky, acerbic Philibert Tsiranana, rightist President of the Malagasy Republic (formerly Madagascar). "All I hear," he told his uneasy listeners, "is blah, blah, blah. We all talk too much, and we must purge ourselves of this disease." In the course of his own 85-minute harangue, President Tsiranana offered purgatives for a few other African diseases...
...Goldwater interests. Henry Cabot Lodge said: "We must never countenance such a thing as a trigger-happy foreign policy which would negate everything we stand for and destroy everything we hope for-including life itself. Many times in foreign relations the thing to do is not to be forthright." Michigan's Governor George Romney asked that the G.O.P. "unequivocally repudiate extremism of the right and the left and reject their efforts to infiltrate or attach themselves to our party or its candidates...
Aside from Thanksgiving, the Commencement pageantry which will gradually unravel in the Yard this morning is America's oldest continuous festival; by its forthright uniqueness, it is also one of the most endearing signs of the everlasting Harvard...
...Goldwater, he tried to make the best of Ike's statement. Said he: "I hail its forthright restatement of the basic Republican principles upon which I proudly stand and its public rebuke to those who would rule or ruin." But Barry knew better. The same day Ike's message was published, he appeared before a Redding, Calif., audience with an arrow tucked under his arm so that, in profile, it appeared to have pierced his back. Said Barry sadly, "This is just to show you some of the problems I've had in the last few days...
...aged no matter how many months it takes." He reaffirmed his dedication to the war on poverty in America: "So long as I am President and as long as Walter Reuther heads the United Auto Workers, the terms of this war are unconditional surrender." And he made a forthright political pitch: "Give me your heart and your voice and your vote, and stand up with me and be counted...