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Liston screws his heavy features into a frightening grimace. He swings a vicious right to Polino's jaw. The muscular assistant trainer staggers, spits out a mouthful of teeth, backs off and grabs a golf club to defend himself. Liston draws a gun. Bang! Bang! A red stain spreads slowly where Polino clutches his chest. Sportswriters flee in panic; one newsman from Baltimore cowers behind the fireplace. The TV producer faints dead away...
...Soldiers, procured me Anxiety and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most galant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I eyer rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the verdict of the Jury was exactly right...
...Tory Diefenbaker was at last ready to end his long indecision on whether to arm Canada's two Bomarc-B antiaircraft bases with nuclear warheads, it proved not to be. Canada prefers to leave its missiles unarmed, said Diefenbaker, and itself free to lobby for disarmament without the stain of nuclear arms on its own hands. In the event of war, the Prime Minister went on, claiming the best of two worlds, Canadian forces could immediately be equipped with nuclear weapons...
...probably years, before a stable, progressive regime can be established--if ever. In time, with a spirit of compromise among Dominican politicians, and a tolerance in the U.S. of a government which may not always be to its liking, real representative democracy may come to the Dominicans, and the stain of Trujillo removed from politics--as his name has been removed from their capital city...
...some of their own heroes -for example, Playwright Tennessee Williams-can be the worst ambassadors of all. Last week two Williams plays, presented by a freelance theatrical troupe called the New York Repertory Company (which claimed association with Manhattan's Actors' Studio) had left a fairly indelible stain in Rio de Janeiro...