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...spirit is going. Too many gypsies have grown rich. Even Coucou settled down. No one can take his place just now, maybe never." The old gypsy's grandchildren were busy admiring the shiny new trailer of a rich gypsy family camped alongside. On a lot nearby, young gum-chewing gypsies jitterbugged...
...Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts. But in the timbre of his voice there was more than rhetoric: "We have everything here . . . super highways, aspirin, fine hospitals, penicillin, atomic energy, bubble gum, Buck Rogers ... All these, plus the necessities of life. But the greatest of all is the temple of liberty...
...good. But Capra comes to grief in over-playing Tracy's love for people, a remarkable love that is shown swelling up within him as he gossips with a barber and watches a radio technician chewing gum. But the most fantastic demonstration of earthy affection appears when Tracy plays wing-tip tag with a business underling over an airfield. They barrel-roll among the clouds for all the world like long lost brothers. This is during the people-are-everything stage. A little later, when Tracy momentarily shifts to the votes-are-everything viewpoint, he tells the same underling...
...Army. In Tokyo, Pfc. William C. Smith, an MP on duty at the war crimes trials, contritely apologized for sticking chewing gum in former Premier Hideki Tojo's earphones...
Twenty years ago such a bloomer would have raised a Grade A scandal. But today, in the era of the Big Lie, the collapse of Protocol M was rather like the bursting of a bubble-gum balloon. One reason was that, even if Protocol M was itself a forgery, its contents squared with probable Communist aims and tactics. But Sulzberger put his finger on another, bigger reason: "This incident is characteristic of one phase of the present-day nervousness and suspicion in Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents...