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...Dual Hint. There were clues, however, as to the nature, if not the substance, of the surprise party in Yalta. In Tito's party was his handsome wife Jovanka and his burly, iron-jawed Police Boss Alexander Rankovic, a dual hint that Tito had full confidence in his personal safety. No member of the Yugoslav government or foreign office went along, a fact which underlined the significance of the fourth member of the party: mild-mannered, tough-cored Djuro Pucar, a Serbian and longtime Communist who was active in Tito's World War II partisan movement...
...nation of Viet Nam' he left out the fact that half of that nation . . . has been lost to the Communists. When he talked of defending Formosa . . . he must have forgotten that . . . President Truman [first] sent the Seventh Fleet to defend Formosa . . . [His] passing reference to Suez gave no hint of the awesome fact that within the past few months, Russia has gained the foothold in the Middle East she has sought for centuries...
...pitiful that he should inspire our sympathy; but in the end he goes away unrewarded. The wife, frustrated in her quest for security, thrives on honesty so it is natural to assume that she once was in love with him; but there is never any hint of this. Husband number two, attentive and mild-mannered, is a model of stability; but quite inexplicably, he maliciously slays his step-child's pet duck...
...certainly a poet of ability, he has not yet reached the stature of one whose second best work is very much sought after. The poems are, however, readable, if not enjoyable. Kozol's opaque bit, "The Lady's Body," has a peculiar melody, but the content is more a hint than a whole for at least one reader...
Taking the Hint. Later in the week, when the 15 prisoners were released on a $1,000 bond each, Henry told them that the guard would not interfere in anything that happened between them and photographers waiting outside the town jail. The released prisoners took the hint. While guardsmen watched, the photographers were left to defend themselves in a free-swinging sidewalk brawl. When the newsmen angrily protested being denied protection on a public street, Henry barked: "I don't have to defend myself to you people...