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Overt & Covert. Much of the uproar, as the U.S. duly noted and compensated for, was due to the fact that the politicians caught in the bloody draggle of Suez needed a scapegoat. Much of it reflected a last wild try to wreak a change in the U.S.'s stand against British-French-Israeli aggression in Suez. "If we all get hot enough under the collar," said the Daily Sketch, "the warmth of the conflict may perhaps penetrate the icy coldness and hostility in Washington...
Fresh from its stinging defeat at the hands of the Cornell freshmen, the Yardling track team will attempt to wreak its vengence upon the Penn freshmen tomorrow afternoon in Philadelphia...
...sister Claire, who has always been in loves with George, Yvonne's husband; George and Yvonne; and a young woman named Madeleine, whom Michael wants to marry but who, it turns out, has also been loved by Michael's father, George. Now such a situation would, without doubt, wreak confusion in even the most rational of families. When you consider, then, that at least two of Cocteau's characters are not only irrational but neurotic, you may get some idea of the frantic tone of this movie...
...criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway system) a tank--a weapon that could wreak more havoc against the enemy than they could possibly do to us. The fact that the warden would not let this weapon within his gates (and, incidentally, that it would not fit through the gates) is, we feel sure, only a temporary problem. We congratulate the forward-looking law enforcers of this Commonwealth...
...China's leaders are already tightening controls, increasing rationing measures and trying to prepare against the pressures of starvation. Not bothered with any sense of horror at the prospect of millions dying, they nevertheless must worry about the damage famine would wreak on the precious industrialization program and the problems of internal control it would raise...