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...British embassies behind the Iron Curtain. In a violent outburst of a kind unseen since the Bolshevik Revolution 40 years ago, 100,000 Muscovites marched on the ten-story U.S. embassy building in Tchaikovsky Street, smashed its front windows in a barrage of stones, bricks and green ink. Far to the east in Peking, half a million men and women marched through the night making a racket for no Americans to hear...
...federal red-ink splash "of the order of $10 billion." said President Eisenhower at his press conference last week, lies ahead in the newborn fiscal year of 1959. It was a rueful admission for a President who had pledged himself to balanced budgets as an essential goal, and who half a year ago submitted an optimistic 1959 budget showing a $500 million surplus...
Mothers smeared their children with mud, and men swathed themselves in wet towels. Tar oozed in the streets; ink dried between well and paper. Clerks stayed overtime in their offices, where they could flake out beneath the big black ceiling fans; mounted police began their patrols early, when there was still a sliver of shade. In India last week not even mad dogs or Englishmen went out in the midday...
...capacity (2,000 a show) to get him off the nut. He shelled out as high as $40,000 a week for boffo biz getters like Jerry Lewis, Johnnie Ray, Harry Belafonte, but not all of his headliners paid their way. This season only Lewis and Belafonte were black ink...
...prison of Vac near Budapest, prisoners formed a remarkable literary cooperative. For writing paper, they stole toilet paper. They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman in the original Latin and English, then translated them into Hungarian. In the end, the Vac prisoners produced a handwritten, hand-bound, four-volume anthology of prose and verse...