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...expelled from the party ten members of the board of editors of Po Prostu, the free-speaking newspaper that had demanded more freedom, balanced these by ousting a Stalinist provincial party secretary and four of his lieutenants in Koszalin. Declared Gomulka: "The party does not intend to close the wide-open doors of democratic freedom. But it must watch these doors more closely than in the past...
...Crimson's sharp passing gave way to vain booting as hard-fought play ranged aimlessly up and down the field. They gave up their tight, halfback-dominated game for M.I.T.'s wide-open brand of hopeful longshots and could not handle the underdog's spirited hustle...
Body language, explained Birdwhistell last week, is just as real as the spoken kind, tends just as much to show up in national, regional and class patterns, or as a reflection of individual character. Samples: wide-open leg crossing by men, ankle on knee, is a hallmark of American confidence; when a woman touches her hair lightly while looking at a man, it is a sign of her interest...
...Life of Riley, etc. In the once wide-open Hollywood acres used for the location shooting of Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse now stands CBS's Television City, so vast a factory for live TV production that the director of the Red Skelton Show shuttles between his set and the control room by bicycle. NBC's sprawling new $13 million color studios in Burbank, hard by the Warner lot, are even bigger...
Walter Kerr, drama critic on the New York Herald Tribune, has heard many such snap judgments. U.S. Roman Catholics, says Catholic Kerr in a sharp little book called Criticism and Censorship (Bruce; $2.75), are wide-open to the suspicion of being too Index-minded or too censorship-conscious. He writes: "It sometimes seems as though the struggle over censorship were a struggle between Catholicism and the rest of America...