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Interpreting Unity. Obviously recalling Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's Cai ro visit only six months ago, Khrushchev tried hard to sound every bit as revolutionary as Peking. He attacked Israel as "an agent of imperialism," supported the Arab policy on Jordan water, tore into the British and their position at Aden...
...coming Panamanian politician, Aquilino Boyd liked to make his position witheringly clear. He led a band of hooligans in the 1959 Canal Zone riots-they tore down an American flag and urinated on it. At the U.N. during last January's Panama crisis, he was all indignation, accusing the U.S. of "bloody aggression." Last week he was back home, being more aggressive still...
...them with pitchers of pink punch, called for a press conference and in vited reporters to bring along the wife and kiddies. More than 1,000 turned up. The Marine Band played Merrily We Roll Along, Jingle Bells and America. The children drank the punch, crumbled the cookies, meditatively tore up tufts of the White House lawn and, with a certain amount of nudging from their mothers, laughed politely when Lyndon told them: "I want to prove to you that your fathers are really on the job-sometimes...
...KNOXVILLE, TENN.: Touring the city's slums, Johnson selected a seedy apartment building at random and went to chat with a weary woman with a babe-in-arms and torn sneakers. He emerged looking grim. At Knoxville's Coliseum, he tore into political critics of his poverty crusade. "Those who oppose us are determined. They have already, last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, called this war on poverty a cruel hoax. I first heard that phrase in the 1936 campaign when they called social security a cruel hoax...
...late in the second period when Raichlin, behind 5-1, tried to escape. Unfortunately, when he was subjected to a normal takedown maneuver, he tore a quadriceps ligament in his knee. I wish that it were only a sprained ankle. I am sure Joel Raichlin, who will be on crutches for six weeks, wishes similarly. Benjamin Rix Brooks...