Word: vendettas
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...great obligation to him." Similar tributes came from such other previous $320-a-shot guests as Dick Nixon, Jack Benny and Billy Graham. But as ever, teary-eyed Tragicomedian Paar prevailed, reveling in his last self-apologia (about Castro. "I was wrong in many areas") and final vestigial vendetta (was Dorothy Kilgallen headed for India "to fight a mongoose...
...imagination. It is a vicious newspaper." On the Ramparts. To Philip's immediate defense sprang the Conservative Member of Parliament from Solihull, Sir Martin Lindsay. A sheaf of papers in his hand and blood in his eye, Sir Martin accused the Beaverbrook papers of conducting "a sustained vendetta" against Britain's royal family, moved that the House of Commons censure Lord Beaverbrook for "authorizing over the last few years in the newspapers controlled by him more than 70 adverse comments on members of the royal family, who have no means of replying." Lord Beaverbrook was quick to mount...
...Orthodox churches, after centuries of jealousy and vendetta among themselves, met last September in Rhodes (TIME, Oct. 6) to work out an agenda for a new Orthodox ecumenism...
...exonerated former Defense Minister Pinhas La von of responsibility for a 1954 security scandal (TIME, Nov. 7). After pushing through his seventh resignation from the post of Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion forced his Mapai Party to dismiss Lavon as secretary-general of the powerful Histadrut labor federation. The vendetta promised to provide plenty of campaign fireworks. Instead, there was a closing of Mapai ranks. Ben-Gurion refused to discuss the Lavon case on the hustings. And Lavon himself, instead of campaigning against Ben-Gurion, simply faded from the scene by taking a long vacation...
...year-old Hoxha (pronounced Ho-ja), as the delegates from 81 worldwide Communist parties sat gaping. "Khrushchev has distorted the theses of Leninism to suit his own purposes!" Hoxha sided flatly with Red China in the ideological battle to keep Stalinism alive, lashed out at Moscow for organizing the vendetta against Peking at last summer's Bucharest conference...