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...sound of machine-gun and artillery fire in the near distance, a Negro military leader (Al Freeman Jr.) revisits his former white wife, who is now married to a white history professor. Ostensibly, he has come to see his two daughters, possibly to kill them, but mostly to gloat and watch the whites cringe before his oft-waved pistol. At one point, the professor asks if there will be more love or beauty or knowledge in the world after a Negro victory. "That was not ever the point," the Negro retorts. "The point is that you had your chance, darling...
...pundits who guessed right may gloat, as publicly as the world will let them. The politicians whose wins they predicted will quietly pay their way out the door and invite them, like consulting oracles, to return with good tidings at the next election...
...early to conclude that Mao had won the struggle with Russia, which reaches beyond ideology into economic and national rivalry and beyond that into the whole question of Communism's future. But as the radiation glow faded in the Sinkiang wastelands, Mao Tse-tung could afford to gloat over his bomb-and over the sudden departure of his hated fraternal enemy Nikita Khrushchev, whom he had once scorned as the "laughingstock of the world...
...Hoffa's absence, Gibbons closed down the Teamsters' $5,000,000 Washington headquarters, issued a statement of regret. When Hoffa found out about it, he flew into a tantrum. "I'm no hypocrite," he yelled. "Who told you to do this?" Hoffa later went on to gloat that his archenemy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, would be "just a lawyer...
Loving parents gloat over the baby's encouraging growth and happy gurgles as they put him to bed. He is obviously in the best of health. At the next feed ing time, they are shocked to find him dead in bed. Such "crib deaths" happen in the best-doctored countries and to the best-cared-for babies. And most can never be explained. In the U.S. alone there are 10,000 such deaths a year, and they are so baffling that 50 U.S. and British medical experts met recently at the University of Washington to try to decide what...