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...thing became clear: they liked Ike. Canadians esteem forthrightness. And the rankling, remediable grievances between good neighbors Ike discussed with a reasonableness and a courage unmistakable to his hosts (see HEMISPHERE). With his frankness, the President opened a new corridor of cordiality in U.S. relations with its next-door neighbor to the north...
...speech was a go-minute diatribe against Bulgaria's next-door neighbor, Comrade Tito, whom he called "the Trojan horse of the imperialist camp" in Eastern Europe. He was sorry that he had ever tried to make up with the fellow, and now argued (contrary to his enthusiastic courtship of Tito three years ago) that Stalin's Cominform had done right to expel Yugoslavia in 1948. "Revisionism, or right-wing opportunism," is now the major problem of the Communist camp, said Khrushchev, and he was all against different roads to socialism, or letting a hundred flowers bloom. (Echoed...
...ornament called "The World Tree" for the purpose of dancing ritually about it each spring. They are reportedly spurred on to these rites by growing exasperation at walls which no longer see things molding-to-molding with their respective ceilings, and at the whispered but audible conversations of their next-door neighbors...
...Levittown belongs to the anti-Myers Social Club. More than 1,000 residents signed a "Declaration of Conscience" deploring "acts of violence and intimidation." Some came by to mow Myers' lawn, leave gifts or say hello. But even a few of these have paid the price of friendliness. Next-door neighbor Lewis Wechsler has been openly friendly since Myers moved in; since then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half a block away paused one evening...
Friendliness has become the distinguishing characteristic of the House. Some cliques exist, but most disappear or are discouraged from forming. At Dunster it is not uncommon to know the name of one's next-door neighbor. That sort of thing is encouraged, in fact...