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...with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...
...Other wear and tear on the road last week: Tammy Grimes, as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, sank out of two performances because of laryngitis, while Judy Holliday indefinitely delayed the opening of Laurcttc because she needed corrective surgery for a throat condition. At week's end the show, which had drawn boos in a preview performance in Philadelphia, was abandoned altogether...
Addressing the opening meeting of the Yacht Club recently, an Olympic Gold Medal winner discussed the cut-throat competition in Naples, reminisced about his college racing, and issued a proposal on behalf of certain alumni who wish to encourage sailing at Harvard...
...Japanese see nothing impolite about slurping soup or noisily blowing the nose or clearing the throat; the booklet warns that fastidious Westerners will recoil. There is a great difference in giftgiving: "Foreigners normally open gifts on the spot and then thank the donor. Japanese, however, thank the giver and then take away the unwrapped gift, and nobody else sees it.'' The booklet advises against mixing "Eastern and Western customs'' by simultaneously bowing and shaking hands "because it is ungraceful...
...April. Chief business of the court was to hear psychiatric evidence that Pratt was mentally unbalanced. Before being led away for examination by mental specialists, Pratt leaped to his feet to make a statement: "I felt the violent urge to shoot apartheid . . . this slimy snake that is gripping the throat of South Africa and preventing her from taking her rightful place among nations," he cried. "My Lord, I think I was shooting at the epitome of apartheid, rather than at Dr. Verwoerd." Mad or not, his words might have an effect on voters on referendum...