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...cliches are hauled out once more. No Place To Run is supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi is not a boozed up old lecher who only did one decent thing in his disgusting life, which...
Castro made it clear that no rule of law was involved; his bloody vengeance was fully justified. The trouble was the way "enemies" used it to "slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista...
...Malady of Silliness. What is vanishing in Japan is the good old days when women lived by the precepts of the 17th century Onna-Daigaku (Great Learning for Women). A sample: "The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy and silliness. The worst of them all, the parent of the other four, is silliness." The duty of a wife was simply to produce children-sons, not daughters. For 250 years under the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's population was kept stable largely by female infanticide.* Of the girls permitted to live, those who became...
Dennis L. White '60 yesterday withdrew as a presidential candidate in the Young Republican Club election scheduled for March 3. "I find it impossible to continue in a race which annually results in personal slander and character assassination," he charged...
...Russian was convicted by a Soviet court of having called the Minister of Culture a fool. He got a 20-year sentence: five years for slander and 15 for revealing a state secret...