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...Mont Folik (real name: Mont Follick), 70, wuntym (1945-55) Inglish Laboryt M.P. hu twys introdust bils dezynd tu reform fonetekli dhe speling ov dhe Inglish langwij, inventor ov a sirkular rotating tuthbrsh, wuntym Inglish profesor at dhe Universiti ov Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen...
...greatest danger for Stu Symington is that someone like Jack Kennedy or Hu bert Humphrey will walk away with the nomination before anybody gets around to second choice...
...glittering as its past. The sun-baked Abode of Peace by the Tigris has a new bridge, new Royal Palace and Parliament buildings, a TV station and its first air-conditioned movie. It has started slum clearance and flood control, and its ancient irrigation system, in ruins since Hu-lagu the Mongol destroyed it in 1258, is being rebuilt. To top off the all-out effort to make the new Baghdad as great as the monumental city of 2,000,000 that was the setting for the Arabian Nights, the city has summoned great architects from around the world...
Moving swiftly, the Communists arrested scores of leaders, broke up demonstrations, suppressed news of those riots that defied control (e.g., in Hanyang). "Those popular manifestations are clear and unmistakable evidences," said Hu, "to prove that the Chinese Communist regime . . . is as unstable and as shaky as was the Hungarian regime of Rakosi and Gero...
...world must not be misled by the apparent acquiescence of China's captive intellectuals, said Hu. "In the old days," he said, "so long as a man remained silent, he would not be molested." But today men are forced to speak and write praise of the Red regime. Under Communist rule, said Hu Shih, there is not even the "freedom of silence...