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...demanding and usually getting kegs of free beer from the celebrities they spot in ringside seats below them. If no beer is forthcoming, the haylofters boo their target unmercifully, indulging in a "cult of disrespectfulness" that is half the fun of the Six Days. When West German Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel appeared one night, he was roundly booed. But when he donned a crash helmet and bravely mounted a racing bike, the crowd went wild...
...supporter of the New Deal, Pound later became an outspoken critic of what he saw as the judicial-administrative invasion of traditional legislative functions. A life-long Republican, Pound became in the late forties one of the foremost critics of U.S. Asian policy and a strong supporter of Chiang Kai-shek...
...years later, at age 75, Pound went to China at the invitation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to reorganize the judicial system there. He returned...
...From Peking came birthday greetings signed by Mao and other Chinese leaders, expressing the hope that the split was "only temporary." Yet almost in the same breath, the Peking press called Khrushchev a traitor, "a dragon who changes his colors," and "even more stupid than the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek...
...regime of Chiang Kai-shek, Barnett declared, is more democratic than that of Mao because it held elections at one time. The United States should not recognize Peking because that government is in trouble and may even be ready to change or collapse. The Chinese Communists are bad because they have a 'religious conviction," that the world must eventually go Communist and unworthy of diplomatic recognition because they do not abide by Western rules of diplomacy, he said...