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...thinking of most of the party's top politicians, it had to do with the wavering image of West German leadership-largely because of the transition from old Konrad Adenauer's autocratic rule to Der Dicke's noticeably milder administrative manner. "I can't mend what they smash in Bonn," mourned one losing pro-government candidate last week. Added a high party functionary: "We have had a warning that we must produce some forceful leadership...
...learning about journalism I had to learn about journalists. No other profession is so heavily criticized. No other is preached at so much and told so often to mend its ways. Some of the loudest critics have a very simple code for us. It is this. 'Don't ever print anything about me that I wouldn't want people to read...
...with 36 personal phone calls. The next quorum call, two days later, was met. But still absent were nine of Humphrey's Democratic supporters and six pro-civil rights Republicans. With that, Humphrey and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield summoned offending Democrats to a special meeting, urged them to mend their ways and handed out a list of scheduled quorum calls through mid-May. Seven Senators didn't show up for that session either...
News of the riots was at first kept from India's ailing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. A week after his stroke, he looked weak and his left eye seemed strained and unfocused. The Indian government insisted that Nehru was rapidly on the mend, but privately even the most optimistic of his doctors indicated that the 74-year-old Indian leader would be bedridden for at least two months, and after that would be able to work for only a few hours daily...
...freedom. He fumed at what he called their unconquerable tendency to print lies and "sensationalism." His criticism even extended to the character of some of the editors. One, he suggested, was an opium addict; another was playing footsie with the Communists. If the country's press did not mend its ways, concluded Tho, "the government would have to take the necessary measures...