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...alienate so many of its neighbors in a single week. All around its vast perimeter, in a great circle from Russia and Japan on the north to India and Indonesia on the south, China stirred up trouble and resentment. The sudden spurt of hostility seemed prompted by an overflow of missionary zeal for Maoism, a certain amount of frustration at the difficulties encountered at home by Mao's Cultural Revolution and a new wave of China's historic xenophobia...
...shoehorned into the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the Place des Arts, whose stage is about one-half as roomy. While seven translators repeated orders in Russian, English and French, workmen scurried about rolling up the backdrops to fit and putting up a tent to hold the overflow of the troupe's 3,000 costumes. Nonetheless, assured Chief Designer Vadim Rin-din, "the spectacle that will be seen here will be in no way inferior to that seen in Moscow...
...murder cases in November 1965. Almost by reflex, advocates of capital punishment then argued that without the deterrence of executions, the number of killings would soar. For those who judge by headlines, it looked for a while as if the critics might be right. British papers seemed to overflow with stories about THREE POLICEMEN SHOT DEAD and TWO LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED...
While few in the overflow audience of 1,400 seemed to be Wallace partisans, most wanted to give him a hearing out of curiosity, courtesy or both. To the cries of "Throw him out!" one student yelled back: "We listened to Stokely Carmichael, so why don't you listen to Wallace?" (When the Negro militant appeared at the school last fall, he was subjected to a few boos.) When Wallace did manage to be heard, it was to correct "misunderstandings" about his state, to deny being a racist, and to denounce Americans who aid the Viet Cong by donating...
...patient who arrived on a busy afternoon found only standing room available, and the standing overflow blocked the passage of nurses carrying supplies. The whole thing looked like Durgin Park on Saturday night...