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...presence here is only to protect the whites." Snapped Lumumba: "The whites need no protection, and we do not need your presence." As the two Congolese leaders waited for another plane to take them to Stanleyville, they were surrounded by an angry crowd of Belgian Lumumba was cursed and spat upon...
...somewhat skeptical of Reader Hakim Khan's unscientific method of birth control [May 9]. However, after having caught a frog, spat in its face thrice, and having left it where I found it, I find that I am not pregnant...
...politics now, and added gaiety to the exile gathering by singing songs and dancing the czardas. But no brand of logic served to explain the internment of a clutch of former Spanish Loyalists for whom the only important enemy remains Generalissimo Franco. "I am absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades...
...Paar's list was Dorothy Kilgallen, like Winchell a Hearst columnist, and in Paar's opinion, "a puppet. She never moves her lips when she talks. She must use Novocain lipstick." Frank Sinatra spat on the floor when he mentioned her on his show, but she only made Paar foam at the mouth...
...pitfall of the comedy of errors: i.e., as the errors multiply, the comedy divides and dwindles. But Lady's trio of nimble headliners foot the measures of Producer-Writer Norman Krasna's so-so script trippingly. Dean Martin neatly blends tomfoolery and tomcattery. Except for the initial spat, real life Husband-and-Wife Team Curtis and Leigh nibble at each other as voraciously as if they were hors d'oeuvres at a cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find the decor irritatingly ludicrous. On an assistant...