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...Blackmail & Terror." The U.S. Sen ate convened in a mood of icy anger. California Republican Thomas Kuchel accused Khrushchev of "sham and hypocrisy." Cried Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington: "It has never been clear to me why we should take for granted the fact the Soviets ever stopped testing. Why should we assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous...
...gall bladder), Ulbricht runs his country with undiminished authority, working as many as 18 hours a day. barking rapid-fire orders in his high-pitched voice. There is only a bare pretense of democracy. Technically, Ulbricht's S.E.D. rules not alone, but with four other parties (including a sham offshoot of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control of the Volkskammer (Peoples' Chamber), a rubber-stamp legislature that follows...
...Lefkowitz and City Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa. Gerosa has broken with both the mayor and the Tammany bosses, will run as an independent beholden only to "God and the good people." Said one reform Democrat in Manhattan last week: "We're stuck with four hacks. Gerosa is a sham. Lefkowitz is a mediocrity. Levitt is Carmine's boy. And Wagner is Wagner...
...famous "dagger" speech he delivers as though utterly unmoved; he seems to see at most a hatpin. At other times, in direct violation of Hamlet's advice, he tears a passion to tatters. Whatever he does, the lines just do not carry conviction; and we get, for shame, either sham or ham. In the "multitudinous seas" passage, he bids to improve on the playwright by saying, "Making the green...
...glib. Especially annoying is the tinge of 19th-century liberalism in the appeal for unity and good will where substantive agreement is impossible. Algeria is the one subject on which Camus' patriotic emotions seem to have overwhelmed his lucidity. Even as this is written, the inadequacy of sham solidarity is being made apparent. Yet the values implicit in Camus' appeal are not inconsistent with those of his more dispassionate statements...