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Pusey's letter may be read before the Senate as part of an organized protest against the controversial section 1001, sub-section (f) of the Act, which Pusey termed "rude and unworthy of the Congress." It requires that the applicant file an affidavit certifying that "he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government" by unconstitutional methods...
...result of Harold Macmillan's trip to Moscow last month was his arrangement with Premier Nikita Khrushchev to send a trade mission to the Soviet Union "in the near future." Last week the Russians gave a rude shock to British businessmen whose hopes had been roused by windy Communist talk of a $2.5 billion rise in East-West trade. Before a British commercial group in London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what...
...Tokyo, a prince took a commoner for a bride. Popular as his choice was, it did not take a rude intrusion from an angry student in the street to demonstrate that the royal family still has more to do to establish its new place in the minds of a new generation of Japanese. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Prince Takes a Bride...
General Marcos Perez Jimenez, 44, the plump, well-manicured ex-dictator of Venezuela, got a rude order last week from the U.S. Immigration Service: get out of the country by April 15. Perez Jimenez has been living in a $300,000 mansion in Florida on a temporary visa and a diplomatic passport given him, in a show of chivalry, by the revolutionary junta that bounced him from office 15 months...
Earnest is a comedy of manners--not a duplication but certainly a parody of the manners of Society in the English 1890's. Its characters are frequently rude on purpose, never by accident; they often exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young...