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...lady's jewel case, and soon they are stroking the lady herself with such skill that she begs him to steal the rest of her valuables too. He obliges. And so it goes, until Felix is off on a world tour with the title of marquis (bogus) and letters of credit (genuine) on banks from Lisbon to Singapore...
Other proven friends of the West (Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines) spoke effectively for the West at Bandung. The significance of Sir John Kotelawala's speech was that it came from a neutralist, who, perceiving the bogus neutrality of Nehru's anticolonialism, clearly redefined the issue. Excerpts...
...bogus article, which also claimed that the Institute's president had been confined because of "a mysterious plague" unintentionally coincided with an actual outbreak of intestinal illness that had stricken more than 125 students just two days before the paper was published...
...talks incoherently. The following day his fiancee and family file in for farewells. To the end, top scientists, military men and even a Congressman carry on a bitter debate around the bed of the bomb's first peacetime victim. There is a lot of the martyr-toned, bogus moralizing now fashionable among scientists and their hero-worshipers. When Novelist Masters, a former science editor and nephew of Poet Edgar Lee Masters, suggests that postwar America "lost control" of the bomb in the same way that the scientist-hero let his experiment slip, he comes close to losing control...
...ways. Instead, according to Osservatore Romano, Li has recently become "leader and proclaimer among Christians of movements that have the purpose of dividing Catholics and changing the essence of the only church of Christ." In other words, Li Wei-Kwang is helping to set up the Communists' bogus "Catholic Church" in China, similar to the "independent Catholic" churches in European Iron Curtain countries. Rumored in the offing: election of a fake Chinese "Pope...