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Hungary's festival pales by comparison with the old days, when Magyar aristocrats would spit on a 100-forint note (worth about $12.50), slap it on a gypsy's forehead, and demand passionate violin-playing until the spittle dried and the note fell off. But all things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that...
...Sofia decided to pack up and seek education elsewhere. "We have been insulted in every possible way," said Ghanaian Agricultural Student Robert Kotey as he arrived in Vienna. "We were molested in the streets, called 'black monkeys' and 'jungle people,' and people used to spit out before us on buses and trains." Concluded Ghanaian Economics Student Kofi Buckle: "We soon realized that to study in a Communist country is a bloody waste of time...
...imagination conceived." Theodore Roosevelt considered it "a fifth wheel to the coach." Harry Truman said it was "useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles as Administration spokesman and party leader. Those roles were not inherent in the office of Vice President and left no permanent impress upon it. Politician...
Little Me has the spit-and-polish shine of painstaking professionalism. The most prodigious comic labors of the evening are performed by Sid Caesar as the septempartite suitor of Belle Poitrine, the All-America showgirl...
...Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna. Writing his first novel at 49, an ex-Navy enlisted man tells how a ship's crew degenerates behind a façade of spit and polish, then finds itself again...