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...F.L.N.'s chief negotiator, stocky ex-Guerrilla Belkacem Krim, was clearly taken aback. "We do not agree at all. Not at all. This is a unilateral move," he spluttered. Krim proposed that "working sessions" continue the following day. But De Gaulle was adamant; he plainly wanted to let the Algerians stew for awhile. Perhaps, suggested Joxe, everyone might get together again in ten to 15 days, but the tone of his farewell words as he flew off to Paris was clear enough: don't call us, we'll call...
...each other that "salvation-is-just-around-the-corner" -- but found only repeated clobbering around that bend. It is hard (even for them) to avoid feeling that History is with the other team: one begins to discount their wishful optimism. A triumph such as the YAF rally takes one aback: young people are supposed to be liberal, and New York is hardly a reactionary stronghold to begin with. One wonders if there might really be, as the YAF leaders claim, a great upsurge in rightist sentiment among students...
...Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...
Brown was stalled on three plays, and Barry punted from his own 28. Hatch acted as though he were going to catch the ball, until the last split second, when he nobly deferred to his cohort, Armstrong, Needless to say, Armstrong was somewhat taken aback, and the ball bounced between the two men. Hatch gave chase, and succeeded in touching the ball, after which Jim Thompson recovered for Brown on the Harvard...
When a forester from West Rupert, Vt. wrote a letter to the major state newspapers announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Senatorial nomination early in 1958, party leaders were, to say the least, taken aback. When election returns subsequently showed that on $2,000 and the disarmament issue William Meyer had broken the 104-year Republican hold on Vermont's Congressional seat, there was a good deal of incredulous blinking. And when Meyer loomed up in the House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring...