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...march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work, was particularly brilliant. And it would be unfair not to recognize Mussolini's great qualities of political imagination. Other dictators, from Hitler and Nasser to Sukarno and Fidel Castro, are inferior imitators...
...help of sorts from Red China late last week when four silvery MIG-17s tangled briefly with U.S. Navy Phantom jets, then fled toward the Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles east of North Viet Nam. In terms of aerodynamics performance, the slow (730 m.p.h.) MIGs were clearly inferior to the 1,600-m.p.h. Phantoms with their heat-seeking Sidewinder rockets. One of the planes was sent flaming into the clouds while the others scuttled for home. At week's end both Peking and the Pentagon were denying it was theirs. Peking quickly shrilled that...
...both father and husband can be thoroughly beaten up, harassed, humiliated and degraded daily. Lulled by these halfway aggressions-that is to say, halfway to murder-the censorship demands only that in the final sequence Hans & Fritz must submit to flagellation for their 'naughtiness,' Blondie to the inferior position of being, after all, merely a wife...
...cynics claim that Barrientos has staged most of the assassination attempts himself. On the other hand, he is noted for risking his life. A U.S.-trained flyer, he burst on the scene three years ago after two recruits died in practice jumps with malfunctioning parachutes. When newspapers thundered about inferior equipment, Air Force Chief Barrientos invited news men to pick a chute from the same batch that the recruits had used. He then bailed out over La Paz airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia...
...Asked, "How do amphibians protect themselves?", a computer at California's System Development Corp. typed out its reply: "Roman soldiers protected themselves by locking shields." The computer had, of course, mindlessly confused key words. Though its memory units give it an impressive quantitative advantage, the computer is qualitatively inferior to any schoolboy...