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...contributions to states from $57 million a year now to $237 million by 1967. The lopsided House vote came only after a party-line battle over Republican efforts to attach an amendment barring grants to segregated vocational training schools or programs. Democrats insisted that this was just a ruse, and two Democratic Negroes voted against the amendment. This led California's Republican Representative Charles Guber to taunt, after the amendment was defeated, "My count shows that 142 Republicans voted against discrimination and 185 Democrats voted for discrimination...
...Tribuna da Imprensa (circ. 50,000), he had printed verbatim transcripts of two top-secret memos from the new War Minister to his field commanders-one a warning that army demands for a whopping pay raise, which the military has since received (see THE HEMISPHERE), were really a ruse to create a "prerevolutionary climate," the other an order to punish any armymen caught supporting a general then under arrest. "Rare are confidential, secret or reserved matters I am not informed of the very next day," Columnist Fernandes crowed...
...Released, one of them commits suicide, and the other disappears and is presumed dead. But he is dangerously alive: a bomb in the hands of an almost insanely angry young man (Toshiro Mifune) who has sworn to avenge the murder of his father by the corporation. By a ruthless ruse-he has married the boss's daughter-the young man has placed himself inside the enemy's defenses. Can he get revenge before the corporation strikes? The suspense is terrific, but Kurosawa generates more than suspense. In his big boss (Masayuki Mori) he develops a masterly portrait...
...they knew wanted to escape. They then hunted down West Berliners who resembled their fellow students, bluntly asked to borrow the lookalikes' identity papers (which had the owners' photographs attached) so that their classmates could "legitimately" cross at the border checkpoint while posing as West Berliners. The ruse was highly successful until the Vopos became suspicious of so many West Berliners in the East, barred residents of the free sector from crossing the border. West Germans, however, at the time still had access to East Berlin and the use of phony identity cards continued much as before...
...Geneva. Even if the United States can no longer withdraw its inspection demands (inspection is being sought as a political precedent as well as a military necessity), a consideration of Leet's data might lead to better historical understanding of the Soviet suspicion that Inspection is an American ruse...