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...experts label his repeated rejection of fact, is not necessarily a source of comfort for the West. Abroad, should it lead Khrushchev to believe his own propaganda about capitalist weakness, it could lead to fatal miscalculation and war. And at home, so far, it has not noticeably weakened his grip. Though Khrushchev has dismantled much of Stalin's police state, he has shrewdly rebuilt the Communist Party-demoralized under Stalin-as Russia's dominant force. In fact, the Khrushchev Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that distant day when "the state will wither...
...Neville. Gaitskell asserted his new grip on the party at its annual conference in seaside Blackpool. Just twelve months after jeering left-wingers had scuppered a Gaitskell-backed resolution supporting Britain's obligations to NATO and the Western Alliance, the party leadership last week submitted an almost identical motion. In its defense, Gaitskell argued lucidly that a neutral, unilaterally disarmed Britain could only encourage Russia's "more aggressive elements" and "prove profoundly dangerous for world peace." To the left-wing slogan "No War over Berlin," Gaitskell replied forcefully that World War II had broken one year after Neville...
...administrative problems of the above program would be considerable. What size subsidies would be adequate and equitable? Exactly who should be eligible for subsidies? How many poor Southern farmers are really capable of being retrained? Despite the technical difficulties, the plan comes to grip with the basic problems. Its complexities are a measure of its breadth...
Huff-puff, huff-puff clackety clack it goes. Puffpuffpuffpuff, faster and faster and louder and louder. The whistle wails, and the monstrous noise comes on and on and on and on, straight at the listener. His eyes pop open, his hands grip the arms of his chair in sweaty terror. His eyebrows shoot up past his hairline. As the final shattering wallop thunders in his head, the train runs right smack over him and he topples backward in a shuddering trance...
...Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began to match terror with terror. Ben Khedda escaped a Massu dragnet by ducking down a manhole and dodging his way through the city's sewers. Shared Risks. Ben Khedda believed that...