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...attempt at such widespread controls, however, gives little ground for encouragement. The Committee of Public Safety of the Congress did place controls on a list of goods, mostly of West Indian origin, at the beginning of hostilities. The attempt proved unpopular and hence unenforceable, and only tea and salt still remain on the list...
...would appeal to voters as refreshing newcomers and underdogs. It did not help that Brown, Church and Udall?with Humphrey rooting restlessly from the sidelines?could challenge Carter one-on-one, while he was running everywhere. His opponents won the votes of people who were suspicious of his Southern origin or the depth of his commitment to liberal programs, unions and Israel...
...believe that communisms, Communist parties and socialist societies can be different, within the framework of a common origin. Between Peking and Belgrade and Havana, for example, there are already great differences! As for our own experience-thanks above all to the unity policy we have always followed-the Italian Communist Party has been able to establish great strength in a country of considerable industrial and economic advancement and with a particular history and tradition. None of the present socialist countries have a democratic tradition, with the exception of Czechoslovakia...
...Soviet Union. The Blue Bird, as the publicity puts it, "brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union together for the first cinematic coproduction, a distinction accorded to 20th Century-Fox on the American side." The picture is a cultural casualty. The lesson it preaches may have found its origin in the Maurice Maeterlinck play, first performed by the Moscow Art Theater in 1908. An American popular song of somewhat later vintage, however, says it all, and at least as well: "That bird with feathers of blue/ Is waiting for you/ Right in your own/ Backyard...
...What's the origin of "that...