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...Nasser had decided at last that he was in jeopardy from the Communists, he was moving cautiously. At week's end there were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between...
Having decided on these various methods, the scientists turned to touchier problems. The Russians wanted only no control posts, the West 650. At week's end, after small private sessions (in English) with all translators and typists excluded, both sides seemed ready to compromise on 170. Other problems included whether the inspection posts should be fixed, as the Russians wanted, or whether inspectors should be free to move about, and whether inspectors should be members of the country involved, plus one neutral observer. These were ruled to be political questions, outside the scope of the conference...
...Swede, felt impelled to make a loud protest. He announced that he would demand that the Jordan government "punish the transgressors" who killed four Israeli bus passengers a few nights earlier. He had no sooner fired off his warning shot than another flare-up occurred on Israel's touchier border with Egypt...
Hollywood got rich by selling escape, but the postwar movie cycle about persecuted minorities (Crossfire, Pinky, Home of the Brave) showed that grim truths and touchy subjects pay off, too. By last week the moviemakers had begun peddling a new cycle that some fans might find even grimmer and touchier. Already on the schedule were films about cancer (No Sad Songs for Me), paraplegia (The Men), poliomyelitis (The Young Lovers), smallpox (The Frightened City) and leprosy (Who Walk Alone...
Rivalries followed rapidly, and feelings between the Crimson and Blue got touchier and touchier. Relationships were broken off for three years just before the turn of the century, but the game was too good an excuse for a big weekend, and the classic was reinstated...