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...conversation, Boring keeps returning to two topics: "the great E. B. Titchener," the magnetic tyrant of psychology at Cornell early in this century; and the Zeitgeist, a concept he uses to explain his extraordinary personal influence in the history of Harvard psychology...
...lest we forget, there are the South Vietnamese masses. On their behalf, it may not be too rash to assume that they desire and deserve something better than the right to trade one tyrant for another, a privilege the sponsors of the letter seem to confer upon them implicitly...
...with his name on it. On the third day. Vermont's Winston Prouty, generally considered to be the Republican who was really out after Junior, got a chance to ask some questions. What did Roosevelt do with the $30.000 retainer he received when he was an attorney for Tyrant Trujillo's Dominican Republic regime seven years ago? The money went to Roosevelt's New York law firm, and F.D.R. Jr. got his share as a partner. Anyway, Junior now felt that "I would have been just as well off without that client." What about Junior...
After Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949, it took Pravda 22 months to print all the names of his well-wishers. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the tyrant's death, there was not a single mention by press or radio of the man Nikita Khrushchev once fulsomely praised as "our great leader, our friend and father, the greatest man of our epoch." In all of Moscow's millions, only a single anonymous soul dared to pay respects-with three rubles worth of yellow mimosa on Stalin's black marble slab near the Kremlin wall...
Jail for the Dog. In Baghdad, new President Aref and his colleagues were too busy learning how to run a country to pay much attention. The slain Kassem, now dubbed "the mad tyrant," had quarreled with all his neighbors. Aref was restoring trade relations with Egypt, imports from Lebanon and exports to little Kuwait, the oil-rich principality Kassem once tried to take over. Tidying up another national problem, Aref sent a helicopter north to pick up two delegates of the Kurdish rebels in the hope that he might negotiate an end to the bloody civil war that has tied...