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...Embassy. The mob, 20,000 strong, surged from downtown Lisbon up the broad, tree-lined Avenida da Liberdades, and hove to in front of the U.S. embassy right on schedule at 6:30 p.m., while there was still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash...
...range assault by 105-mm. howitzers-Laotian soldiers, as good Buddhists, can seldom bring themselves to fire at any enemy they can actually see. Last week, after taking 29 days to travel the 65 miles, and warming up with a few shots at villages along the way, the army hove to outside Vang Vieng, 880 strong. They laid down their usual barrage, the Communist defenders fled, and the attackers moved in almost without incident (though one lieutenant shot himself in the foot...
Lippmann called for deceleration when the New Frontier hove into view. "The great task of quiet diplomacy," said he, "is to work out ways and means of keeping the critical questions from reaching the point of irreparable decision. It sounds brave and dashing to say that we must take the lead and act decisively to solve the problems of Laos and Cuba. But the fact is that these problems are, in the present state of the world, insoluble. By open diplomacy, which only too often means loud-mouthed diplomacy, we can do little to assuage, indeed much to exacerbate these...
...truth is not lost upon movie queens who respire to greater things. When the Olympic Games began last August, Elizabeth Taylor showed up in a décolleté creation that momentarily paralyzed athletes and spectators alike. One who is well-equipped to compete with Liz, Siren Gina Lollobrigida, hove into view at the Roman movie premiere of Ben Hur, caused as big an eye goggling as the chariot race on the screen...
Food for Thought. In Hove, England, thieves jumped a porter carrying a bag with $8,000 worth of jewelry and a bag with a salmon sandwich in it, ran off with the sandwich...