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...Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian officialdom squealed like stuck imperialists, complained that the Albanians "trample underfoot the elementary standards of international law." What's more, said Moscow, Albanians are Indian givers, since the buildings "stand on territory presented by the Albanian government as a gift." Gift, shmift, sniffed Tirana-reporting that they were confiscated because the Russians had never paid the $1,700,000 construction bill...
...hard, harsh life. The market woman's day begins at 4 a.m.; by sunup, she is ready for business-often with a derby on her head, a strong cigar between her teeth, an infant at her breast. While her five or six older chil dren scurry underfoot and her common-law husband of the moment snores the day away, she haggles and harangues, using every wile to turn a profit. She rigs prices, forms miniature cartels, organizes rock-solid unions that defy municipal authorities...
...artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized ruby warts...
Fowler was expressing an eminently practical view. Having escalated himself to the title of board chairman, Roy Roberts served immediate notice that he has no intention of playing figurehead. "I'm going to get out from underfoot a while," he said as he prepared to leave for a ten-week cruise of the Pacific. "I don't want to be breathing down the necks of the new team as they take over. But I'll be back, don't worry about that. I'll just ooze in the back door to keep...
...Baptist who lives in the North, I have only one question-why can't we hear the voice of the Baptists in Mississippi now that Governor Barnett and his crew are so blatantly trampling underfoot the principles of him of whom it was said: "He hath made of one blood all nations...