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Speaking at Vladivostok, where he presented an Order of Lenin for economic achievement, Brezhnev spouted a violent torrent of abuse at the U.S. for its stand in Viet Nam. Americans, he said, were "beating all records for cruelty and cynicism. Can we forget even for a minute that the Pentagon's air pirates, murderers and arsonists carry out criminal raids daily on the towns and villages of a fraternal socialist country? Let the American imperialists understand that they will collide with the most tangible demonstration of the combat solidarity of revolutionaries...
...visionary also chained himself to his work table for nights on end, compulsively churning out that prodigious torrent of words that is his own monument and literature's as well. Old Goriot, Lost Illusions, Louis Lambert, Droll Stories, Eugénie Grandet-these and other components of Comédie, his grand design, enjoy a special favor on the shelf of classics that not many others there can claim: they can be read today just for pleasure, by nonscholars, without respect to their literary pedigree...
...silly things, as he did all over Latin America, and somehow, not be taken as silly. He can say outrageous things, as for instance that he would not object to American blood flowing into Viet Cong veins, and when the public winces, he will issue a torrent of explanations and modifications which are gratefully and instantly accepted, and emerge as the forward-looking thinker. He can back the machine and somehow escape the normal consequences. It is, so far, a winning combination...
India's new leader has been plagued by a torrent of problems at home, and last week, when she was finally able to get away, another snag developed: Air India's navigators went on strike for higher wages, grounding the Boeing 707 that she was to use for her trip. Undismayed, Mrs. Gandhi climbed into a slower, medium-range Caravelle of India's domestic airline for the 18-hour flight to Paris, which required four refueling stops...
...Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs never do," goes an old Wall Street saying. To the New York Stock Exchange, the pig that is trying to take too much money is the city of New York. The exchange has long been irked at the city's torrent of taxes-high real-estate taxes, occupancy taxes, gross-receipts taxes, state income taxes and state and city sales taxes. When