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...confrontation resulted in a partial, though temporary, victory for Cunningham. Movers returned his furniture to the apartment, but police proceeded to arrest him and seven sympathizers on charges of assault and battery on a policeman and rude and disorderly conduct...
Alien Anomaly. Freeport is caught up in a bitter, smoldering dispute between its predominantly white developers and the Bahamas' first black government, located 130 miles away in Nassau. For tourists, the feud all too often translates into rude or grudging service from hotel and restaurant employees. "All the visitor wants is a quiet vacation on the beach with a drink in his hand," a top hotel executive told TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood. "Instead, he finds himself in on a black power situation." Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling admits that tourist receptions in the Bahamas are less friendly than they...
Anyone who thought that this treatment might flatter him into flattery got a rude shock. He enlarged the Paris bureau staff and expanded his domain to include the Italian and Spanish collections. He sent his reporters to nightclubs, theaters, chic restaurants and chichi resorts to note not only what jet-setters were wearing but what they were doing while wearing it. A letter to his father explained his aims: "WWD must be alive in this alive business, WWD must be controversial in this controversial business, WWD must be smart and snobby in this smart and snobbish business." In late...
...entire section on the rise of Stalin's cult of personality, the Soviet euphemism for his reign of terror. It glosses over his disputes with Lenin about economic and military policies. In addition, the present version strikes out Lenin's complaints that Stalin was coarse and rude. In fact, the only criticism of Stalin appears in Lenin's famous letter to the Twelfth Party Congress in 1925 in which he expressed doubts about whether Stalin would exercise his power with sufficient care if he was elected party leader...
...sister are all picayune, prosy, avaricious, suspicious, xenophobic, obsessed with pinching their pennies and palping their livers. They are only part of a larger Paris, drawn with fearful and totally remorseless accuracy, which becomes a tawdry circle of hell. The French whom Shirley meets are all impossibly rude: "We wanted to give you beans and jam for dinner, but my wife refuses to do American cooking," says Philippe's best friend, welcoming Shirley to his house for the first time. They file everything away in loony little mechanical categories they call logic. They are incapable of generosity...