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...Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Life of the Communist | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would not get far with it, and was in no mood to expose himself to so well publicized a loss of face. Besides, he said, the Scandinavian governments had encouraged press and public criticism of his visit. "If they spit in my face," he snapped, "why should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: This Side of Paradise | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

This gaudy story, filmed as J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I'll Spit on Your Graves), played at four Parisian theaters last week to enthusiastic reviews. But those who had read the novel from which the movie was made should have realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: The Spitter | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Spit & Polish. In London, David Wal-der was fined $11.60 when a constable examining his car found the fenders wired to the hood, a door dangling by a string, inner tubes peeking through the tires, wheel spokes that could be poked out with a finger, a steering wheel that turned 85° before engaging, then locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Fresnes prison where the five are still awaiting trial, describe how they were beaten and tortured to reveal not only the names of F.L.N. accomplices but also names of sympathetic French priests and lawyers they had consulted. Several of the Algerians were tied naked like animals on a spit and subjected to successive electrical charges through electrodes attached to their lips and genitals. Others, says La Gangrène, were plunged head down into buckets of water, vomit and urine while their interrogators stood by laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Right to Be Angry | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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