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...Mild. He repeated the message during a one-day visit to the U.N., where he charged that ITT and Kennecott Copper Corp., two U.S.-controlled companies whose assets in Chile were expropriated by his government, "had driven their tentacles deep into my country, and even proposed to manage our political life." Allende claimed to have a document proving that ITT had specific plans for "strangling the economy, diplomatic sabotage, sowing panic among the population and fomenting social disorder. That is what we call imperialist intervention...
Considering the vitriolic nature of the charges, the U.S. response was unusually mild. George Bush, the American Ambassador to the U.N., merely remarked at a press conference that "there is nothing in our system designed to exploit anyone." He also paid a call on Allende later at his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...Diabetes. A predisposition to mild forms of this disease may be brought out by obesity. There are now over 4,000,000 diabetics in the U.S., plus 5,000,000 potential diabetics...
Patience does not lend itself easily to greatness. The social satire of Gilbert and Sullivan fades with every passing year, like a tintype of some long forgotten grandparent. The comedy of manners that is Patience with its mild jabs at the military and the intellectual alike seems pale and watered-down today. The genius of G&S, when it appears in the show is only a shadow of the inspiration of Mikado or lolanthe Gaylin and Huessy have exploited every possible moment of great theater in the show and forced Patience to be memorable...
...surmised that the reason Knight was able to use the drills he did was that he could go out and recruit the type of ballplayers he wanted to, while Harrison strong, and the prospects are brighter in the butterfly as well with the performance of freshman John Craig a mild surprise...