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...their attacks on Brown, few Republicans can outshout Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty, 56, who hopes to win the Democratic nomination. Unembarrassed by his own record of nonaccomplishment, Yorty has outraged most Democrats with irresponsible charges that Brown has sought and received Communist backing, is given little hope of an upset...
...outshout the more vociferous of campus critics. Thanat employed reason and restrained passion to speak up for the U.S. in Southeast Asia and, as he sees it, for the future of freedom there. He sounded his theme on radio-TV's Meet the Press. Asked whether current American policy has made the U.S. "extremely unpopular" with Asia, Thanat said no. "I think what the U.S. has been doing in South Viet Nam will go into history as a courageous decision, and measures which will save not only South Viet Nam but the whole of Southeast Asia from Communist domination...
...many U.S. companies, the annual stockholders' meeting in recent years has become a raucous cross between a stage show and a shouting match. Profanity and horn honking disrupted Communications Satellite Corp.'s session last month. President Darryl F. Zanuck had to outshout hecklers-one of whom came dressed as Cleopatra-at the 20th Century-Fox Films meeting, and shareowners peppered management of the A. & P. with a talkathon that included a suggestion that it make cottage cheese easier to find in its stores. Usually armed with a little bit of stock and a lot of cheek, professional scolds...
...Communist friends are undermining the peace every day, creating disorder and danger wherever you move? How can you talk of colonialism when you are surrounded by your puppet dictators . . . ?" Then he got down to the matter at hand: "This is no time to say that we can outtalk or outshout Mr. Khrushchev. I want to outdo him-outproduce him." Later, in Nashville, Tenn., Kennedy emphasized a point: "I want to make clear that nothing I am going to say is going to give Mr. Khrushchev the slightest encouragement. He is encouraged enough...
Weary of always being outvoted in the Diet, the Socialists have tried to outshout and outbrawl their opponents, at times reducing Japan's postwar democracy to a mess. Faced with these outbursts, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi remained politely placid, meek and smiling. "But Kishi's smile," the Socialists admit with just a trace of admiration, "is like a rose-it has thorns that slash." Last week, faced with the toughest battle in his 21 months in office, Kishi injected some thorny parliamentary shenanigans...