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...erase the bloody stains of 1956, when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were allowed to take trips to the West, a 400% increase over 1961, even though the frontier with Austria is still studded with minefields...
Speaking back indignantly to the prosecutor's question of how he saw any shooting if the Sheriff was standing in the trees, Daniels retorted that you "can see flashes of fire from a slingshot." Also, he saw Charlie Ware twist in pain with each flash from...
...Darlings." In a succession of bills, Mme. Nhu banned prostitution, contraceptives, abortion, organized animal fights and taxi dancing. Referring to the war, she said, "Dancing with death is enough." In Saigon, "twist easies" began to spring up, and criticism mounted that Mme. Nhu was trying to impose rigid Catholic standards on South Viet Nam's easygoing sexual mores. She herself used to go swimming at the fashionable Cercle Sportif. but stayed away when she saw too many bikinis. Even some government officials privately said that the morality crusade resulted only in increased and unnecessary public hostility toward the Diem regime...
...ascertainment" without a formal referendum. Sukarno, switching from intransigence to blithe unconcern, took time off to collect an honorary degree (his 21st) from the University of the Philippines, to pursue a pretty Malayan correspondent, and to demonstrate for photographers the intricacies of the lenso, a sort of static Indonesian twist...
...cinespectacle called Gidget. Teen-age Heroine Gidget (Sandra Dee) was the pelvic oracle of surfdom. After her came the surf bums, the peroxided boys and girls who at first gave surfing a bad name-and not only because of their outlandish hairdos. Throbbing to guitars at midnight twist parties, they were fond of nudity and occasional ransacking of beach homes. But slowly the genuine challenge of the sport attracted a better ilk, and bit by bit an entire subculture emerged...