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...Congressional courtesy" is a code under which an insult can only be hurled if it is politely wrapped and properly addressed. Last week the House of Representatives found it hard to stay within the code. Rumple-haired Al Engel of Michigan sputtered: "The rules prevent me from saying what I would like to say with regard to the delays in the other body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hit or Strike Out | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Chilean carabinero on duty, he boldly made off with the Apristas' star-shaped wreaths. Discovering the theft shortly, the Apristas marched off to protest, first at the Ministry of National Defense, then to the office of Mayor Rafael Pacheco. Thundered the mayor, who had authorized their ceremonies: "An insult to O'Higgins and San Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: War of the Roses | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them up, the two slabs could be fitted together almost as good as new. Even some of the brown paint on the slave's face and arms is still in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Thanks to the Junkman | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...airport, Nehru refused a closed car, chose an open model in which, standing erect all the way, he rode through eight miles of churning crowds. In the Shambazaar district, a group of youths shouted, "Traitor Nehru," and threw shoes at him, the ultimate Indian insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Warm Welcome | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Page after page of the Star was given over to outright plugging for the Liberal Party. No story about the Tories got into print unless it could be made an insult. When Tory Leader George Drew was well received in the Maritimes, the Star ignored it. When boos were heard at a Drew meeting in Halifax, the Star rediscovered him and played up the boos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: All the News | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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