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John Husband, feeling amorous, makes advances to his wife and is stonily repulsed. Enraged, Mr. Husband begins to shout unchivalrous things. His wife, just as furious, hollers back until the battle ends with a thunder of slamming doors. How to explain such behavior? Easy, says Author Berne. Husband and wife are playing games...
Much more complicated than such incidents is the furious political fighting in city after city over control of anti-poverty money-and the votes it can influence. Items...
France's partners were more puzzled than panicked by De Gaulle's pique. "We could have reached agreement," E.E.C. Farm Boss Sicco Mansholt maintained. "If the French say that the situation was hopeless, that's simply not true." The guessing in Brussels was that De Gaulle, furious at the way his bluff had been called, was simply raising the ante. As for the threat to the Common Market, no people in Europe would lose more from the breakup than France's farmers. It was hard to believe that even De Gaulle would risk such a blow...
...water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged Carter in effigy. After a week in the dark, Edwards moved...
...hand there were the Führer's orders to raze Paris, cabled and telephoned with increasing frequency, culminating in Hitler's furious two-word query: "Brennt Paris?-Is Paris burning?" On the other was the eloquent plea of the Vichy mayor of Paris, Pierre Taittinger, as the two stood on the balcony of the Hotel Meurice looking out across Paris shortly after the general had arrived. "Often it is given to a general to destroy, rarely to preserve," said Taittinger. "Imagine that one day it may be given to you to stand on this balcony again...