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With its home sector in disarray, there was some evidence that Red China may be willing to resolve its ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union. Before the Congress. Chou En-lai protested that China, as always, was "firmly and unswervingly" a friend of Russia, paid lip service to the Khrushchev line-usually derided in China-of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist countries...
Sullivan's quarrel with the M.D.C. and the Charles River Yacht Club (a private organization) springs from his attempts to construct a large apartment house on the riverfront property which he owns. The M.D.C. refused to allow Sullivan to build, but a few months later granted the Club permission to construct a clubhouse and wharfs on Sullivan's property...
...Wanderer. Finally, in a monumental quarrel that turned into opera briffa, Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist...
...fuss was surprising not only because Goldberg had said the same thing, but because no one disputes the duty of management and labor to consider the national interest. At least one major executive had no quarrel with Goldberg. Said Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block: "I heartily endorse Mr. Goldberg's concept. A contest of strength where the stronger side wins doesn't prove a thing. Each side has to represent its own interest, but neither side must be unmindful of the needs of the nation. Who else can point out those needs but the Government...
...today the I.R.A. looms larger in the imagination than any other army in modern times, it is because imagination was always its main weapon. Never has a minuscule army enlisted so many gifted poets, playwrights and novelists,* nor a colonial quarrel produced so rich a body of literature. By contrast with its gay and gallant image, in its later days the I.R.A. engaged in violence almost as ruthless and aimless as the Secret Army Organization's in Algeria, notably at the start of World War II, when its booby traps maimed and killed innocent civilians in England...