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...know in one split second,' Floyd said, 'whether he can commit treason against his country in my opinion is not qualified and doesn't have the right to sit in the house of representatives voting on legislation that would affect my life or any other Georgian's life...
...reluctant to let Red China take all the credit for Stalinism, or perhaps it has to do with inner Kremlin politics. In any case, they have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step further toward the rehabilitation of Georgia. He flew to the regional capital of Tbilisi to present the republic with an Order of Lenin...
...rights bills-in 1964, '65 and '66. Weltner further outraged Southern racists last year by initiating a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. His resignation from the race prompted hundreds of tributes from across the U.S., including a telegram from a non-Georgian that read: "I never heard of you. Now I will never forget...
...specifically Communist crime is "hooliganism," a rubric that covers everything from horsing around in public to beating up policemen. Hooliganism is intimately associated with alcohol-fully 80% of arrested hooligans prove to be stoned on vodka or Georgian wine. Most of them regard the customary 15-day jail rap as a holiday from work. From now on, the fact that a man is drunk when he commits a crime is to be considered an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance...
...maintenance conserves his own sturdy load factor (5 ft. 11 in., 185 lbs.) under the pressures of his $122,000-a-year job. Tillinghast carefully budgets time for such morale-boosting chores as awarding 20-year pins to employees. With his wife Lisette, he lives in a 22-room Georgian house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y., golfs (badly), shoots clay pigeons (much better), occasionally plays high-stakes poker (superbly). Though little in his background prepared him for the airline business, Tillinghast holds: "Special knowledge is a lot less important than a keen mind." That...