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...merited-and not inherited." Sufficient Overkill. As McCormack spoke, Kennedy twice opened his mouth as though to break in, both times thought better of it. When at last it came his turn to talk, Teddy doggedly declined to answer Eddie's attack. Instead, he stuck to a solemn discussion of his position on issues-state, national and international -that he had outlined in his opening statement: "Decisions made in the United States Senate will indicate whether the free world or the Communist world will prevail. And if America is to make progress, Massachusetts must make progress." Under questioning from...
Swedes practice nudism with erotic grace, the French with gay abandon; British nudists even manage to shed the stiff upper lip. Among West Germans, unzipping has become a solemn Teutonic cult whose practitioners rarely even wear a smile. Banned by the Nazis as "one of the greatest dangers to German morality and culture.'' nudism has enjoyed a spectacular boom since the end of World War II. As prosperous Germans have been able to afford more and better clothes, they yearned all the more to take them off-except, of course, in austerely Communist East Germany, where even collective...
...solemn was the occasion last week that even in the birthplace of the steel bands their sonorous sounds were banned from the streets for a night and rollick some calypso singers were allowed to perform only indoors. A new red, white and black flag went up, the Union Jack came down, and Trinidad-Tobago became the eleventh British possession granted independence since World War II. The islands' 825,000 Africans, East Indians, Arabs, Chinese and British began a nine-day independence party designed to top the birth-of-a-nation celebration in nearby Jamaica 26 days earlier...
...looked as solemn, and frequently got as unfriendly, as a meeting on Berlin or disarmament. But actually, what has gone on behind closed doors at the United Nations headquarters for the past seven weeks has been history's biggest kaffeeklatsch. Everybody wanted to do something about prices and production in the glutted coffee market...
...King Saud confiscated Talal's property, canceled his passport, and denounced the rebels as "quite mad, irresponsible boys who are deliberately trying to break the Saudi family tradition and hold it up to ridicule." Mad indeed, Rebel Talal headed for Cairo to drum up more support behind his solemn vow: "We will overthrow King Saud very soon-sooner than you think." Talal would find quick sympathy in Egypt's capital, where Gamal Abdel Nasser for years has been using spies, subversion and radio propaganda in an effort to undermine the old King...