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...Hungary, but his words held bitter aptness: "We were proud of the soth century. Yet that first half of the century has brought with it such terrible stains on almost all social, political and state organs that we can truly regard that century as a great disaster, as a slap in the face to a proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Churches and Hungary | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Slap in the Face. From then on, Gigi worked his revenge. Nannarella's trucks met mysterious accidents, and the potatoes in her warehouse started going bad. A shrewd marketman knows well how to ruin his rivals' stock. Her resources dwindled, and one by one her subjects abandoned her. By spring she was facing bankruptcy. Nannarella sought out Gigi. "Give me back my subjects," she said, "and I'll let you have all my remaining potatoes." Gigi only laughed, so Nannarella slapped him hard across the face. One of Gigi's brawny henchmen seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Queen | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...Slap in the Face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Storm Over Suez: A New Proposal | 9/27/1956 | See Source »

...Nominee Stevenson announced that the vice-presidential candidate would be chosen in a wide open convention, such Kefauver managers as Jiggs Donohue urged Estes to stay out. The whole thing was a phony, they argued. Stevenson had really chosen a running mate; the best Estes could get was another slap in the face-and he was running out of cheeks to turn. But Kefauver talked to Stevenson at Adlai's victory party and received personal assurances that the race was indeed open. He left the party, huddled with aides in a post-midnight session, talked it over with Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Professional Common Man | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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