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...that the Allies get out. The other bone in Nikita's throat is Peking, for the Sino-Soviet quarrel has seemingly passed the point of no return (see box). As at the earlier congresses, Red China will have its own delegate in East Berlin ready to take the rostrum in Peking's defense. The stage was set for a noisy showdown...
...letters whom I hold in respect and reverence," said Author John Steinbeck 60. "But I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision in an older work by another author, with which some were certain not to agree...
...Internal Revenue now expects detailed receipts and notations for such business tools as lunches, conventions and country-clubbing. "We do not want to interfere with legitimate business-expense deductions," Caplin insisted at a two-day hearing on the new rules. But 56 assorted executives who followed him to the rostrum plainly felt otherwise...
...finally, the candidate with the most sex appeal, Teddy Kennedy, approached the rostrum, launched into a vigorous attack on the Republican party, and demonstrated his mastery of rhetoric: "With this spirit we shall not fall; with this spirit we cannot fail." Then everybody left, for now they'd seen everything...
...folksy touch can make a difference in Nebraska. People grin when Morrison hoists his 6 ft. 3 in. hulk to the rostrum and begins: "I hope you came out not just to see if I'm as homely as I appear on television, but out of a desire to know more about government." Where Seaton, with his national reputation, once seemed a cinch, the race now seems close. Both candidates agree that it will be settled by the vote in the populous Omaha and Lincoln areas, where Morrison won his entire victory margin in 1960. That was before Jack...