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...major Red powers locked in a struggle for leadership, and East and West choosing sides, little Albania at week's end was sounding more and more like the voice of the opposition. From Tirana, the Albanian radio sneered at Khrushchev as an "anti-Marxist" and a "splitter" of Communist unity. The radio crowed: "We shall win because we are not alone. Albania will not bow before the attacks, calumnies or pressures of Khrushchev and his followers...
...will continue to refer to the enemy as "the Democratic Party," instead of continuing the "Democrat Party" label applied by his predecessors. For his part, Democratic Chairman Paul Butler confessed to a high political crime: he has sometimes voted for a Republican. "But in each case." explained candid Ticket-Splitter Butler, "I have always prayed for forgiveness...
...agents of a foreign power." Next day, under the sting of Kassem's accusations of conspiracy, Nasser dropped all pretense of soldierly comradeship with Kassem and attacked him in person as a man who fights against Arab unity. Punning on Kassem's name, which in Arabic means "splitter," he shouted that "Iraq's splitter" had fought Arab brotherhood more viciously than the hated Nuri asSaid himself. Iraqi planes, firing on the thousands of defeated rebels and tribesmen fleeing for their lives, had bombed a Syrian border village. His own air force, Nasser said righteously, could have retaliated...
...system is backed by rare imagination and ingenuity. On view at the joint annual meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers in Manhattan were 24 new gadgets to aid science teaching -a projector, voltage regulator, a machine for demonstrating wave motion, an optical splitter, an armillary sphere -all ingeniously designed for mass production and priced for sale in the U.S. at levels far below competing American models...
...taught school in Michigan, later practiced law in Illinois. An early Lincoln partisan (his younger brother John worked in the Lincoln-Herndon law office in Springfield), Milton reputedly hoisted Honest Abe onto the crowd's shoulders at one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, while The Rail Splitter protested: "Don't. Don't. This is ridiculous." After captaining one of the quasi-military Republican abolitionist outfits known as the "Wide Awakes," Milton marched away to the Civil War as a volunteer officer...