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...claimed that the debate had not been full or the tactics fair (the South argued redundantly but on the points at issue), or that the net bill did not mark some slight progress. But by the same token, no one could argue that the verdict was not a hard slap in the face of a nation generally trying to live up to its own constitutional guarantees. It was also a shrewd political blow to an Administration that put presidential prestige and power behind a strong bill and to the Republican leadership that had staked its political prestige on the outcome...
Batista's answer was to slap Cuba under martial law, suspend all civil guarantees, impose an iron censorship. He ordered his troops to force open Santiago's stores and drive its buses. And his police made mass nationwide arrests...
...arrive at its decision. The opinion of the minority was not only good law but. was ?rood. sound, common sense. In the Jencks case the decision went far beyond the issues noon which the court was called to decide. It seems to me to have been a gratuitous slap in the face to Government law-enforcement agencies, particularly the honored and respected FBI. It will aid and encourage subversives in their nefarious designs against the integrity of our country...
...eleven years St. Louis has reason to remember the happy days of the Gashouse Gang and the Dean boys, whose strong right arms used to burn up the league. The once feeble Phillies have fooled everyone and ice-picked their way into contention with a surprisingly potent combination of slap hitters and speedball pitchers. Milwaukee's Braves, despite their unhappy habit of losing the big ones, seem to be training down into fighting trim for the decisive half of the season. Even the sixth-place Giants have come on so fast that their fans are talking of 1951, when...
...road would be a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of the proletariat. Inside the party he promised "full freedom of speech," but outside no party member (and presumably no private person) would have the right to express opinions which are out of harmony with party policy. This was a direct slap at his left supporters, whose "ideological confusion and revisionist tendencies," he said, "undermine unity and sow disbelief." Then Gomulka turned on the Stalinists: "Not only revisionism disarms the party-the same, though in a different way, results from dogmatism and conservatism...