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...Cairo, Gamal Nasser's propagandists screeched their loudest at Jordan's embattled King Hussein. HUSSEIN SMUGGLES WEALTH TO SWITZERLAND, cried one headline. "How does King Hussein rule?" asked the newspaper Al Ahram. "Through prisons, guillotines, tanks and U.S. dollars." Radio Cairo's "Voice of the Arabs" called repeatedly for "death to the traitors who rule Jordan," put on a soap opera depicting a Hussein pursued by a fortuneteller croaking that his people will avenge his treasonous friendship with...
...believe anything: that the dead have arisen, that the Czar is visiting Frampol, even that his wife is faithful. In the first place, he believes because, after all, anything is possible. In the second place, he believes because if he does not, everyone shouts at him, his termagant wife loudest of all. Only Satan takes pity and whispers to Gimpel that he could be avenged on the world by deceiving it in turn. Gimpel tries, but it is not in him: he is too much the fool even to be evil. The worldly-wise (including the reader) are sharply reproached...
...disband. To most students, it is an unrepresentative body which annoys them yearly for funds, an annoyance which becomes more frequently ignored with each passing year of fruitless debate. Students do not attend its forums on scholarships, travel, or the National Student Association--that troublesome organization about which the loudest Council debate always settles. Furthermore, students have little interest in what the Council is doing: revisions of its own procedure in meetings and elections often bring the feeling that the Council might well revise itself out of existence and bring greater happiness...
Predictably, the loudest outcry came from Britain. THE DOG WILL DIE, WE CAN'T SAVE IT, wailed London's mass-minded Daily Mirror. Before BBC's announcer had even finished reading the Russian bulletin, more than 50 irate telephone calls began jamming the switchboard. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal...
...first victims, it seemed, were Georgia's taxpayers, who have to pick up part of the tab for the A.R.F.'s scouting expedition. Technically it goes on the books as an official trip to look into state archives, but the loudest talkers in the party (five men, four wives) seemed more interested in real estate than records, and−if the truth were known−more interested in propaganda than real estate. Whether or not Fowler, Harris & Co. really expect to stir up the North, one thing is clear from their grins and chuckles as they talk about...