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Gratuitous Slap. Thus, for the first time since he reached power, Castro had on hand flesh-and-blood soldiers...
...NATO Council. De Gaulle apparently felt slighted because Kennedy was reportedly using the NATO appointment as a convenient way of moving Lemnitzer, with whose performance as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs he had not been happy. Besides showing his usual touchiness, De Gaulle's little slap was a reminder that the new Europe considers itself the equal of the U.S., and that France (which has yet to make available to NATO more than two of the four infantry divisions it promised) is determined to play its own independent role...
...idiot baby with two heads. When he has its distraught parents dance around it to the tune of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" played on a xylophone, however, he is thought of as "terribly clever" only by those warped individuals who think that perversion treated as a slap-stick comedy is meaty intellectual fare...
...admission of Outer Mongolia to COMECON, Russia's ineffectual answer to the Common Market, was a slap in the face to the Chinese, who are not members and who had expected to exert a measure of control in Outer Mongolia's affairs. In Laos, Russia infuriated China by promoting a deal, however unsteady, with the U.S. and heralding it as "a major accomplishment." In India, Russia has supported Nehru's border war against Red China, first by providing small arms and helicopters for the swift movement of troops, most recently by offering the Indians supersonic...
...Naipaul, 29, a Hindu who made a name for himself in his first novel, The Mystic Masseur, which recorded with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy, style, and a less elastic blueprint would have done wonders...