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...soon got all sorts of hell from ministers of his denomination." A delegation of Church of Christ preachers, complaining of the deprecatory tone of the Post's story, demanded that Hobby print a statement supporting the evangelist's position. In their argument to Hobby was an implicit threat: "We take a lot of advertising in your paper." Bill Hobby* refused to print the statement...
...subjects into beehive-style communes, nobody professed to be more appalled than Nikita Khrushchev. It wasn't the inhumanity he objected to; it was the dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...
...children of financial independence. "I put them in a position where each one of them could spit in my eye and tell me where to go," he has said, "and there was nothing to prevent them from becoming rich, idle bums if they wanted to." There was the implicit assumption, however, that each Kennedy, freed of the necessity of earning a living, had a duty to make his life worthwhile. Says Rose: "Joe told the children that they had plenty of advantages, but that these advantages carry with them certain obligations." Like the English gentry of the 18th century...
...Abbas himself came to Paris, he could be sure of negotiating with De Gaulle personally. To the rebels, this was far more than a matter of prestige; the rebels have made it plain that they will not agree to a cease-fire unless De Gaulle makes good on his implicit promise to give the F.L.N. an opportunity to participate in the political referendum that will determine Algeria's future. But only hours after the rebels accepted De Gaulle's negotiation offer, Premier Michel Debré himself put out the word that French negotiators would refuse to talk politics...
...justifiable determination to see Eichmann punished for his monstrous past. Ben-Gurion seemed to be unaware of the inverse racism implicit in his claim that Israel, as "the only sovereign authority in Jewry," had the right to seek out criminals guilty of offenses against the "Jewish people" anywhere it could find them. And he seemed equally unaware or indifferent to the fact that the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as one U.S. official pointed out, "is going to cause a serious loss of world confidence in the objectivity of the Israeli government...