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...tried to stress boiling water, and the agent plugged for this too. But his approach is so unenergetic. Their method seems to be to lecture, and to threaten--with fines, hints of hauling people off to Agboville, and flat statements that the "African" won't do anything unless pushed and pulled. All in all not my idea of sanitary education...
...community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...will profoundly affect the United States itself. In human costs alone, thousands of American soldiers will be killed. In terms of foreign policy, the chase for "victory" will lend increasingly voice to those who would meet revolution anywhere with military intervention. Domestically, the need for a war consensus could threaten civil liberties, place in doubt the fate of controversial programs for The Great Society, and inflame even further a public opinion which tolerates no concessions to the Communist threat...
Nerve Test. Strauss & Co.'s most outrageous ploy was to threaten Erhard that Strauss might take his Bavarians out of the C.D.U. altogether, the implication being that he might then form a majority with the opposition Social Democrats. "They have their nerve," growled Erhard to an aide. In fact, he knew, they didn't have that much nerve, and when the time was right, he put them to the test. At a series of caucuses ending last week in the ornate Palais Schaumburg, Erhard's official residence, the Chancellor informed his adversaries that Schröder would...
...indication of Perón's flagging appeal was the attitude of Argentina's anti-Perónmilitary during the episode. "Street demonstrations," said one ranking soldier, "do not in any way threaten the government. The military respects the civil authority's capacity to handle what is essentially a police matter...