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...have been forced to this extreme by the family's failure to show any serious intentions to reform. To imagine that mandarin President Diem will ever take the initiative in reforming himself, the palace clique, the police, and the army, is like thinking that the Cosa Nostra will voluntarily abandon organized crime...
Early this month, MTA General Manager Thomas J. McLernon quietly gave assurances that the MTA would abandon its plans to move repair facilities to Codman Square. A day later the Kenneally bill was quietly removed from the legislative docket...
...snail hunters is one of the world's messiest killers, a blind, translucent larva that is the aquatic young of a sciomyzid marsh fly. No species is more than three-quarters of an inch long, but they tear into the snails that are their natural prey with fierce abandon, ripping their flesh to ribbons with sharp mouth hooks...
...necessary," he once cried, "to film another thing in another spirit. It is necessary to abandon these expensive, disorderly, insalubrious studios. The sun costs less than a battery of lights. A borrowed camera, some cheap film, a friend's apartment, friends to play the parts, and above all the faith, the rage of the cinema-the rage to storm the barricade, to use this way of expression-the way of the future, the art of the future. A revolution of intentions is beginning. No longer do we trust in the old labels, the established themes. To express ourselves...
...noise from Peking showed no sign of diminishing, and continued to fascinate the non-Communist world with fresh tales of old skeletons in Communist closets. In one announcement, Red China took full credit for forcing a weak-kneed Khrushchev ("who had decided to abandon Socialist Hungary to counterrevolution") to send Russian tanks into Budapest and crush the 1956 uprising. Peking radio also made an unprecedented reference to important factional disputes within the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Khrushchev was accused of openly voicing support for "antiparty elements" in China. Western experts believe the Chinese "elements" Khrushchev was supporting...