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...Good Loser. Genial in defeat (he quickly made friends with three blondes in Zurich), Boun Oum might have given away still more points had not the Bolder Grand told the princes that they would have to get out to make room for tourists. That shifted the scene once again to the 14-nation conference on Laos in Geneva, where prospects were no more encouraging. The argument was mostly about helicopters (did or did not the I.C.C. need them to police the cease-fire?). Publicly, the U.S. promised to pull out its 300 military advisers from Laos if North Viet...
...sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price up to $7,500. West opened the bidding at $6,000, was amazed when nobody challenged him. "I had bet Mr. Carpenter a new hat that the colt would...
...Winner & Loser. Spain was only partly a "rehearsal" (as the familiar phrase has it) for World War II in which Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin experimented with military and political techniques. Actually, the only important military lesson-that mass civilian bombing does not break, but stiffens the morale of the surviving victims-had to be learned all over again in World War II. The political lessons, reaching well beyond World War II, were far more significant...
Stalin, the apparent international loser, showed the greatest enterprise; his agents were able to develop the techniques, so useful later in eastern Europe, by which a Communist minority can influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...
...first speech on national issues since the election presents a difficult problem. The trouble is that no one agrees what I should do. Some say, 'Continue to be a good loser; speak but don't say anything controversial.' Others say, 'Pour it on.' Still others say, 'Don't make any speeches.' In any event, a defeated candidate always runs a risk that members of the other party will accuse him of bad sportsmanship if he does anything other than compliment the new Administration. I shall speak as a private citizen, saying those...