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...spectacles on his ample nose as outrigger canoes bearing lovely Polynesian girls passed in review. At a tamaaraa, the traditional Tahitian feast, the general sampled all the specialties: spinach with pork from earthen ovens, breadfruit, cooked bananas in coconut cream sauce. Everywhere, he plunged with a balance of glee and gravity into the smiling crowds shaking hands, and more than once was draped with leis and bussed by dusky native beauties in return...
...reason is that civil rights bills have never previously hit Northerners so close to home. From the moment it was drafted, a powerful coalition of builders, real estate men and politicians of all persuasions objected to the housing measure, and Southern civil rights foes viewed their discomfiture with undisguised glee. "For the first time," chortled North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin, "we have a bill which proposes that other than Southern oxen are to be gored...
...want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With that, he lodged the Stars and Stripes in place above Jeff Davis' head. As the 600 Negroes in the square roared their glee, Grenada's whites glowered their hatred-"I saw two of my niggers in there," snarled one. "They won't have no jobs tomorrow"-yet did nothing. Town officials met the marchers' every major demand. They desegregated toilets in the courthouse, allowed four Negroes to help enroll voters...
...Glee Club and Band Concert. Tercentary Theatre. (In case of rain: Sanders Theatre.' No admission charge...
There was a curtained irony to the whole affair. For months, Moscow had watched with glee as Charles de Gaulle hacked away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of many Eastern European capitals last week came reports of a Rumanian round-robin message to the nations of the Warsaw Pact...