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Because fire apparatus was unable to pass through the street with cars parked on both sides, the Masters gave prompt attention to the recommendation...
...With little room for positive proposals left to him after the President's speech, Khrushchev-"the head of the greatest colonial empire of the present day,'' as the New York Times put it-delivered a rambling 2½-hr. farrago that included a demand for a prompt end to colonial rule in the world's remaining colonies, and a sharp attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, calling for a triumvirate to take his place. Khrushchev seemed bent on destroying Hammarskjold's usefulness (calling him a lackey of the imperialist powers), as the Soviets had destroyed...
...Brooms. A dozen women, fed up with the male politicos who had increased municipal debt while letting the town decay, formed their own "United for Walsenburg" party, drafted a stern austerity platform calling for prompt payment of the town's debts and no salaries for the mayor and town council. The women pored over civics textbooks, stormed into meetings of the all-male city council, journeyed to Denver to seek advice from Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols. Though Walsenburg had never before elected a woman to any office, the United party put up a slate of seven of them, recruited...
...Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, ardent champion of civil rights, to offer a motion to "table" the bill-a congressional euphemism for kill. Cried Clark: "I believe I can recognize the hand of politics ... I do not believe civil rights ought to stand in the way of the prompt enactment of proposed legislation which is on the calendar and ready for action." The vote was strictly party-line, and the Democratic majority tabled civil rights by a lopsided...
...matched by Lodge's assignment as Khrushchev's official companion during his U.S. tour. (Khrushchev's favorite cry: "Where's my capitalist?") Both men have learned by first hand experience how to deal with Communists (drawing on his journalistic experience. Lodge always tries for a "prompt refutation" of every Red challenge for the next editions). Both have had to act, on occasion, on their own initiative and judgment. Says Lodge: ""When I am in doubt about what to do, I write out my own instructions and tell the State Department: 'This is what...