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...tiny injustices imposed by the white world (Griffin is forever having to walk long blocks just to urinate); and of the bigger injustices that are perpetually evident in the white man's "hate stares," his constant use of the word "boy" while talking at all Negroes, his utter unwillingness to show them the tiniest human courtesy...
...duty in Kashmir when the Chinese broke through the light defenses on the Himalayan border. He kept baiting the West as enthusiastically as he praised the Soviet Union, sure, as was Nehru, that if his Red Chinese friends should ever become troublesome, Moscow would keep them in line. The utter bankruptcy of this policy was demonstrated last week when ten Indian Air Force pilots returned emptyhanded from Russia, where they had been sent to take delivery on long-promised MIG-21 jet fighters. In the showdown, Russia stayed loyal to its alliance with Red China, leaving India to shift...
...they can't do anything except sound like geese they ought to leave. They hiss again, and stay. The rest of the audience applauds, and stays too. "This situation did not arise last Tuesday; the moment was deliberately chosen," Moore declares. "All this rallying behind the President is the utter abdication of democracy." Thunderous applause. His manner is calm, almost hesitant, highly academic...
...that there will be no roll-away bed for him. The eventual arrival of the bed late at night is funny enough, but even more amusing is the frightened face on Humbert the next morning when Lolita whispers in his ear presumably the very idea he was afraid to utter himself...
Incredible Pyramids. Last week the Russian dancers took a boat ride around Manhattan Island. They stared in utter disbelief at the vast automobile crematoriums of The Bronx, where the dead cars are piled up beside the Harlem River in unstable pyramids. Almost every dancer has a camera-movie or still. Awed by the triple run of traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway, they hastened to record the incredible sight. A sparkling cabin cruiser roared insolently by. A male dancer asked if it was privately owned. "Yes," said an interpreter. The dancer grunted: "It figures...