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...concert pianist at which point Mr. Carson suggested that he play the piano for the people now, an offer which was taken up, and then how he felt a thrill of excitement as he played and then more of a thrill as the people in the audience applauded him louder than he had ever heard before. Unfortunately, Mr. Nixon was suddenly cut off and did not have time to draw from this incident the conclusion that it proved his qualifications for the highest, most responsible office in the United States...
...theme is one of rejection of the life that has been arranged for them--and it is clear that in this the hippies' actions speak louder than their words--and a defiant optimism about their chances in the task of shifting everybody else's allegiances...
...human beings. We are beasts and so shall we remain as long as somebody's wife is better looking than ours; as long as a neighbor has a better car than ours; as long as our shouting for a principle or idea is overtaken by someone who shouts louder; as long as we may feel that there are weaker beasts willing to be told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from prehistoric man to the scholars of today. Because this country has refused to accept that fact for so long, its outbursts shock...
...Draft us!" In Egypt on the day of the Israeli parade, 7,300,000 voters went to the polls and, by an affirmative vote of 99.98%, which is even purer than Ivory Soap, endorsed President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reform program in a ritual that he described as "louder than the thunder of 300 tanks in Arab Jerusalem." Though the vote was ostensibly on a series of domestic reforms, Nasser had also asked the people to make it a ringing endorsement of his policy of renewed holy war against Israel-even though he knows that Egypt...
When Wladyslaw Gomulka's increasingly restrictive regime recently closed down a classic play called Dziady, the official reason was "hooligan excesses" -meaning that the audience clapped loudest at the anti-Russian lines. Last week Dziady's public grew louder still. Protesting fines slapped on Warsaw University students for demonstrating against the ban, some 3,000 students paraded through the downtown campus for two days shouting slogans. The government's answer: truckloads of helmeted militiamen, who used truncheons and tear gas to try to subdue the demonstrators. To no avail. At week's end, the students took...