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...events. Kennedy would gain an edge if the nation slipped into recession before November. Likewise he would gain if the Administration ran into medium-grade foreign policy troubles, e.g., neutralization of any current ally. Nixon stands to gain from any sharp increase in tension, e.g., a new Communist thrust, a step-up of Khrushchev's screeching threats, that prompts a demand for experience in office...
...trying to establish a beachhead in Guinea. Ethiopia and Morocco are also being probed. Peking may possibly have a long-range plan in the next two decades to export some 5,000,000 Chinese to Latin America, Cuba and North Africa as a prelude to a global revolutionary thrust...
Against the 4,000 steel-helmeted cops guarding Tokyo's Diet building, Zengakuren threw in more than 14,000 students who charged with cries of "Kill Kishi," "Down with the treaty," "Ike, stay home." Pulling away a barricade of parked police trucks, 3,000 of them finally thrust their way into the Diet compound, beating off police counterattacks with volleys of stones and pointed sticks wielded like spears. Meanwhile, those who remained outside set fire to 17 police trucks by stuffing burning newspapers into their gas tanks...
...Scotch tape -and I was burned in the same way on the legs, the groin, the sex and the face. After a few days of this treatment, I was given the bottle torture. It was the most appalling pain. After tying me in a special way, a bottle was thrust in me. I screamed and lost consciousness for, I think, two days . . ." Wrote Novelist Franchise Sagan, one of the many French intellectuals who have rallied behind the cause of Djamila: "There will be impartial gynecologists [at the trial] who will say what results are when a virgin is impaled...
...children grow less dependent on her, Suburbia's housewife fills her newfound time with a dizzying assortment of extracurricular projects that thrust her full steam into community life. Beyond the home-centered dinner parties, Kaffeeklatsches and card parties, there is a directory-sized world of organizations devised for husbands as well as for wives (but it is the wife who keeps things organized). In New Jersey's Levittown, a projected 16,000-unit replica of the Long Island original, energetic suburbanites can sign up for at least 35 different organizations from the Volunteer Fire Department to the Great...