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Promised Purge. New York's Democratic Party has been torn asunder since the state convention of 1958. Principal ripper was National Committeeman Carmine Gerard De Sapio, the dark-spectacled Tammany Hall sachem who outraged most fellow Democrats and voters by dictating the selection of the party's candidate...
Speeding through Ankara just after sunup one morning last week, police squads knocked on door after door. To the men who answered-all key armed forces officers and members of the National Unity Committee that has been running Turkey since the May 27 revolution-the police presented documents, with blunt...
Showpiece. To demonstrate to the world through this uncomplicated flyer the "insane aggressiveness'' of the U.S., Nikita Khrushchev had set up a show trial that evoked memories of Stalin's purge productions of the 1930s. All morning long in the cold Moscow rain, the black ZIM limousines...
Speaking in general terms, he first delineated the responsibilities of UN delegates. "One soon acquires a strange principle of identifying oneself with general principles," be commented, since delegates must purge themselves of "personal whims and opinions."
LIKE its wealthy Italian sisters across the mountains, the city of Nice in the 15th and 16th centuries was a place where great fortunes were piled up in the midst of misery. Moneylenders flourished, and when the long-suffering poor finally rose against their masters in 1437, they were brutally...