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Mikoyan's mustached smile turned to an angry frown as he laid down the Communist view of history. The Red government of Rakosi, he said, did many wrong things and came into opposition with the Hungarian people; then reactionaries and villainous Americans started the revolution. And when Budapest asked the Soviet Union for help, it responded, because "of course, we help our friends." As for the "Hungarian students here in Oslo, I would only say that their hands are stained with blood...
Seeing the need for government machinery to express that concern, many Washington and Latin American officials frown at the low priority the U.S. gives Latin American affairs. The State Department's Latin America chief ranks with ten other Assistant Secretaries of State, below two Deputy Under Secretaries, two Under Secretaries and the Secretary of State himself. Two decades ago, the equivalent post ranked third. Some critics even think that a special branch of government, perhaps roughly similar to Britain's Commonwealth Relations office, is needed to administer the U.S.'s Latin American responsibilities with the necessary understanding...
...women appear in Casablanca without seeming to be the cliches. Maybe it is because Humphrey Bogart is holding both the guns and his liquor, and maybe it is because Ingrid Bergman is the woman. At any rate, Casablanca is outstanding. Few people wear a trench coat or a frown as well as Bogie and no one can rival Ingrid in looking wistful...
...Benson. "I don't know who he represents," said Symington, "but I know who he does not represent-the farmers." But it was not what Symington said that impressed the citizens of Abbeville. What impressed them was Stuart Symington himself. Standing straight and tall on the platform, a frown of earnestness stamped on his strong-jawed, ruggedly handsome face, the lingering trace of boyishness nicely balanced by the thick silver streaks in his hair, he looked every inch a potential President. Anybody conditioned by the movies could plainly see that here was one of the Good Guys, brimful...
There are other reasons for the Administration to frown upon the Student Council's recent suggestion to extend Friday parietals to 10 p.m. and to eliminate the privilege of feminine company on some weekday afternoons. Elliott Perkins says that "horsetrading" parietal hours is "nonsense," which should convince all but the most bullheaded. And, as Dean Watson points out, "Faculty members simply don't like to be bothered" with parietal changes...