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Blunt Terms. Almost every day, it seems, Goldwater's baritone voice can be heard telling the nation what he thinks it should know. In the ballroom of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel early last week, he arose before 1,200 top New York businessmen to plead for a return to constitutional principles and a sound dollar. "I can't think of anything Mr. Khrushchev wants more than irresponsible fiscal policies such as we are under today-where we don't even know what the deficit will be next year." In recent weeks and months, and in blunt...
...been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would go to Nice, he might take off for the North Pole...
Died. Robert Ezra McCann, 60, China-born auto dealer who spent ten years in Chinese Communist prisons on trumped-up espionage charges, was released last month after his wife Flora learned he was dying and rushed to Tientsin to plead for his freedom; of cancer; at Clark Air Force Base, Philippine Islands...
...plead with him: turn back. Turn back, before the guillotine rises in Harvard Square, and the tumbrils roll along Quincy Street. Before blood darkens the brick of our sidewalks, we say, turn back...
...remained last week for Eichmann himself to come up with a suggestion that no one else had thought of. As the court sat awed and uneasy, Eichmann's musing, tape-recorded voice declared: "I am prepared to atone personally for the terrible things that occurred. I cannot plead mercy because I am not deserving of it. Perhaps I ought to hang myself in public in order that all the anti-Semites in the world should have the dreadful character of these events emphasized to them...