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...concept of a "New America," Stevenson showed flashes of his old eloquent self ("Leadership in a democracy can be no more than the capturing of a people's power to realize their own best ideals"). But most of the time, he seemed more content to let the sparks shower merrily and fall where they might...
Thus, like a shower of rain after years of drought, the six-year exile of Seretse Khama, onetime chieftain of Bechuanaland's Bemangwato tribesmen, came to an end. Seretse had brought the drought on himself by marrying a blonde London typist named Ruth Williams in 1948, to the outrage of all British colonials in Bechuanaland and to large numbers of his own subjects, who, rather than accept a white chieftainess, transferred their allegiance from Seretse to his Uncle Tshekedi. To still the clamor, Britain's Laborite Colonial Office simply plucked the young king from his throne and sentenced...
...every reason to expect their rooms to be in a livable condition. Now livable, for the average student who passes the academic year in a rather unkempt condition, does not mean gleaming sinks, glowing floors, and shiny new paint. All that is demanded is a clean sink, a usable shower or tub, and a comparatively dust-free bedroom. This is not demanding too much. But the returning undergraduate found it all too easy to carve his initials in the layers of dust in the bedrooms while the bathrooms were at best in fair shape...
...Soviet leaders, treated to firework displays and riverboat excursions, exposed to agricultural and industrial exhibitions, loaded with honorary degrees at Moscow University, the beaming Indonesian President responded feelingly: "We shall continue to struggle and to make the whole world free from capitalism and colonialism." Later at Tashkent, under a shower of roses, he cried: "The friendship of the Soviet and Indonesian peoples is a friendship of fighters . . . The idea of coexistence will develop unceasingly...
...moviegoers may be baffled by private jokes that put Britons in stitches, e.g., a major who abuses underlings by bellowing. "You're an absolute shower!" -an abbreviated allusion to a British army phrase which might be paraphrased as a deluge of offal. But the skilled producer-director-writer team of John and Roy Boulting (Seven Days to Noon) keeps all this nonsense spinning along blithely, has made Private's Progress a sort of British-accented Keystone Kaper, with pratfalls, chases and cuties in uniform that any nationality can relish without special training...