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...look at a fender." But more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles -no automobiles at all." But though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that...
Despite the anger of its rank & file, N.E.A. officials also did their best to smooth things over. Though the grumbling continued in private, the N.E.A. unanimously adopted a resolution "deploring" the Legion's article, recalling the cordial cooperation of the two organizations, and asking for space to defend itself in the Legion magazine...
With visible anger, he snapped his opinion of the Taft organization which had stymied the election of Eisenhower delegates in Texas: "You have a small clique of Republicans who look upon our party as their fenced-in, personal preserve . . . On every post they have nailed up signs that read 'Keep Out.' " The enthusiasm of the audience mounted as Ike pounded ahead: "Thousands upon thousands of Republican voters-an overwhelming majority of them-were deliberately and ruthlessly disenfranchised. Majority rule, the very basis of our free government, was here flouted and overriden." Then Ike drew the moral: "No party...
...reason for the Eisenhower forces' anger was quickly demonstrated. A day after the national committee's announcement, the Louisiana State Committee met in Shreveport to settle the seven cases the committee sent back to it. There to hold the Taft fort was John E. Jackson Sr., who for 23 years has bossed the Republican party in Louisiana, quietly keeping it small so he could hold control until the day when there would be some patronage to pass around.* On hand to plead the Ike cause was John Minor Wisdom, a fiery New Orleans lawyer, who has been trying...
...wave of cold anger swept across doggedly neutral Sweden, which stayed out of World Wars I and II and now refuses to join Norway and Denmark in NATO. The anger was aggravated by an event in Stockholm: the opening of a treason trial against seven Swedes who are accused of selling out the secrets of Sweden's entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador...