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...document was designed to take the sting out of the sorest point of friction between the two countries. The issue has been synthetically whooped up by Filipino nationalists and complicated by maladroit handling by U.S. authorities in the Philippines and in Washington. The Philippines Act of Independence of 1934 gave the U.S. the right to maintain bases there after the islands became independent. In 1947, a year after actual independence was granted, 23 such areas were defined, only three of them major: Clark Air Field, 50 miles north of Manila; the Navy's Subic Bay installations on the northwest...
...correct her too harshly. "When a woman makes errors, your corrections should be low pressure. The sting of a rebuke is hard for her to take...
...Yale game, however, relieved a lot of the sting from the close defeats. Suddenly, everything seemed to go as it should, and as the New York Times said, "on the rapier thrusts of Barry Wood's forward passes Harvard marched to victory." Both touchdowns in the 13-0 win were scored by Huguley on passes from Wood. Notable, too, was Captain Ticknor's performance: observers say he played the best game of his career in the Yale Bowl that afternoon and was instrumental in stopping the Elis' Booth for the second straight year...
...Reds. Last week Dulles termed Egypt's recognition of Red China "an action we regret." To emphasize U.S. displeasure, Dulles indicated that Egyptian acceptance of Russian aid to build the Aswan Dam would mean U.S. withdrawal from the $1.3 billion project. Next day Ike removed some of the sting, saying that a single unwelcome act by another nation does not "destroy friendship for that nation...
...political expert, was once asked by a TV man to move from his front-row seat at a news conference. Drieske was wearing a white shirt, the man explained, and a colored one would look better. Even when the reporters get their own conference, they can feel the TV sting. After Stevenson's Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting for TV to finish shooting his prepared statement. As they started to question Stevenson, the TV crew made so much noise packing to leave that tart-tongued Columnist Doris Fleeson finally cried: "If the second-class citizens could have...