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...prime minister of Japan assassinated by a group of fanatic soldiers ultra-nationalists. His final plea, "Let us then you would understand," was silenced rude interruption, "No use to talk." time, the Japanese parliamentary steadily deteriorated into an ornamental which simply bestowed approval on the of the Imperial cabinets. Occasionally, , hesitant yet tenacious voices of dissent courageous few made themselves heard. them was Inejiro Asanuma, who was by an eighteen-year old fanatic last...
With the titans staring each other down, the neutralists seized their chance to be helpful. Most of their ideas seemed to be aimed at appeasing Khrushchev in order to display their even-handedness between East and West. With the support of some African delegates embittered by alleged rude treatment at the hands of New York waiters and cab drivers, Indonesia's showboating President Sukarno told the Assembly that he favored Khrushchev's proposal to move U.N. headquarters away from New York to an "uncommitted nation." At week's end, Tito summoned all the top neutralists...
...When Marie learns that he wants to return to Tunisia to practice among his people, she readily agrees to go with him. But in Tunisia they are met by her husband's family, a noisy, colorful clan she was wholly unprepared for. Their food seems outlandish, their curiosity rude. After the long drawn-out, seemingly crude Passover celebration, she cannot conceal her disgust: "I never thought I was saying goodbye to prejudice and superstition at home simply to find myself plunging here into barbarism...
...family's happiness as well as to their despair. Tall, handsome, irresistible to women, brutal and meanly selfish, he bums around the country, calling home only when he needs money. His bemused mother adores him, pathetically unaware that he hates her. His father, a rude, free-thinking eccentric of a kind increasingly rare in the U.S., insists that the boy is only sampling life and will turn out well. When Berry-berry unexpectedly shows up at home, the Williamses have a brief interlude of unaccustomed happiness. He falls in love with a nice girl, and even though...
...policy plank is even more passive. What the Vice-President wishes to do--although it is somewhat uncertain what he means by the phrase--is to stand firm, and in doing so to liberate Eastern Europe and Communist South-east Asia. How he plans to do this--by being rude to the Russians, by being nice to them, or simply by aiming rockets at them whenever they behave badly--he gives no indication. The entire plank, in fact, when it is not hoping for a glorious future and deploring the recognition of Red China, is celebrating...