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When the last brickbat had been flung, Eleanor Roosevelt rose up like teacher reproving a wayward elderly schoolboy. "He doesn't like certain kinds of liberals," she said. "I welcome every kind of liberal . . . Perhaps we have something to learn from liberals that are younger." Flushing to his hairline, Truman managed to applaud politely. But, as usual, he had the last hot word. Next day before he flew back home to Missouri, Truman grandly assured attendant reporters that "there isn't any split. There aren't any liberals in the Democratic Party; they're all Democrats...
Director Truffaut, who also wrote the script with Marcel Moussy, tells a story that derives from his own childhood experiences in a reform school. His hero is a French schoolboy (Jean-Pierre Léaud), about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement. Actually, the boy's father is just a man his mother married when she found herself pregnant-a nice, easygoing nobody who brings home a steady salary and doesn't ask too many questions. The mother herself is no better than she should be: a pretty, shallow blonde...
...Errant Schoolboy. As the deadline approached, Indonesia's Communist Party abandoned its pro-Sukarno stance for the first time. Party Secretary D. N. Aidit called the anti-Chinese law "shoddy chauvinism, inspired by racial hatred and a desire for personal gain." Peking sent what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio called "as peremptory a diplomatic note" as Indonesia had ever received. Alarmed, Subandrio hustled off to the Red mainland to talk things over. He got the cold shoulder. Roused from his bed in the middle of the night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining...
Alone in his boat, the burly driver was grinning like a schoolboy. On a trial run, his speedometer had climbed past 260 m.p.h. as he shot his new jet-powered, aluminum-hulled Tempo-Alcoa over the startling blue surface of Nevada's Pyramid Lake. Driver Les Staudacher knew that the sleek water monster he had designed was ready for an official try at the world record of 260.35 m.p.h. held by Britain's Donald Campbell and his Bluebird...
What the 18th century U.S. schoolboy beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...