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...carved Romanov griffins of his chair. De Gaulle's response would have pleased his NATO allies if he had uttered it in their presence. "It is necessary," he said when Brezhnev finally finished, "to proceed by stages. The future lasts a long time, and blocs do not dissolve overnight. It is up to Russia to give an example of rapprochement." As to Brezhnev's demand that the West "accept a framework that guarantees European security" and recognize East Germany in the process, De Gaulle rebutted brutally: "East Germany is only an artificial creation of yours...
...have no jobs tomorrow"-yet did nothing. Town officials met the marchers' every major demand. They desegregated toilets in the courthouse, allowed four Negroes to help enroll voters, promised to enable Negroes to register near their homes without coming into town. Negro registration doubled almost overnight...
...urge you to remember that Americans often grow impatient when they cannot see light at the end of the tunnel -when policies do not overnight usher in a new order. But politics is not magic. And when some of our fellow citizens despair of the tedium and time necessary to bring change-as, for example, in Viet Nam today-they are forgetting our own history...
...certain diva when peasants must pay for their water and electricity?" asked Ekonomska Politika. "When the town of Budva gives Sophia Loren a piece of land," it replied, "Loren will shed on Budva part of her world fame, which has an astronomical price. Hotels around her villa will overnight rocket in value, as will the whole town...
...floors are asphalt, the walls are chain-link fences, and for furniture there is a never-changing assortment of head-chopping swings and lethal slides. Green areas are inevitably posted with KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs; when the signs are not obeyed, the grass wears down to dirt, seemingly overnight. When these outdoor rooms are also forced to function as community centers for all ages, chaos results...