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Yale students have also complained that the dining hall employees are rude to them. Miss Bowers, in replying to this charge, asserted that the rudeness is not all on one side and that Yale men have been known to swear at the help. All is not sweetness and light, it seems, at the colleges in New Haven...
...since then, businessmen and politicians in Rio had speculated endlessly on the probable diagnoses, the possible cures. Some had hopefully regarded "los Abbinks" as advance agents of the U.S. Treasury. Last week, when the U.S. State Department finally published a summary of the report, the optimists got a rude jolt. Uncle Sam's voice was more like that of a Dutch uncle whose main message was: do it yourself-and this...
Serrano paled, stuttered: "What's the use of censorship in Spain? How did that book get here?" "In this book," the grim inquisitor continued, "the writer says you made some very rude comments about a friend of ours . . ." Serrano, recovering poise, interrupted: ". . . and of mine." "Our friend, Sancho Davila," said the visitor, "has sent us to see that you either retract and apologize or else. We give you exactly 24 hours to make your decision...
...residence there this winter viewed without alarm the prospect of Communist capture of Peiping. Boss Mao Tse-tung had promised complete press freedom, and correspondents hoped to get an on-the-spot picture of the Red army. But when Red troops marched in last month, newsmen got a rude surprise...
When he finally took aim at Moscow, he drew the fire of Russian propagandists, who yelped that some of his remarks were "gross and rude slander." He helped fashion the so-called Truman Doctrine and warned Congressmen: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world." He planted a seed in a speech at Cleveland, Miss., which, somewhat to his astonishment, blossomed into the Marshall Plan...