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...literary in its bent, for a long while it still did not entirely abandon its motto. After the political period of the '80's, its editors merely seemed to prefer to find their danger in defending the freedom of the press--by testing the public censors with sensational (i.e., candid) stories and pornographic parodies. The first allegedly indecent story appeared in 1884, but 1894 was the year of the first major crisis, when "Kid," a story about a Harvardman and his mistress appeared...
...ever wanders outside of Ohio and tends strictly to business within his state, Lausche is not well known to most politicians and pundits, who have only the general impression that he is conservative in his outlook, eccentric in his behavior and unbeatable in Ohio elections. But after his refreshingly candid Meet the Press performance, there was no longer any reason for ignorance about the political specifics of Frank Lausche, who is running for the U.S. Senate this year and is an announced favorite-son candidate for President...
This was bad enough, but it was not all. French authorities rigged the Arab elections in favor of stooges whom the Arabs call beni oui ouis (yes, yes men). Mendes was more candid about this than any top French politician had ever been before. "We discredited democratic procedures. The ballot is counterfeit. The ballot boxes are stuffed. The winners are picked by the government...
...Nationalists had been unmoved by the reminder that they themselves, back in the early post-Yalta days of 1946, were among the first and one of the few to recognize Outer Mongolian sovereignty. They had been equally unmoved by the surprisingly candid statement of Australia's Sir Percy Spender: "It is not principle with which we are concerned here but expedience-the expediency of inexorable political circumstances." They also had been unmoved by two personal appeals from President Eisenhower to Chiang Kaishek, urging support for the notion of "universality" of U.N. membership.* But to the Nationalists, the logic...
...bull with a single, perfect thrust, winning both ears and the tail. By the time the killer of more than 2,000 bulls had finished off his third that afternoon, Maracay aficionados were so elated that they paraded him through town on their shoulders. Dominguin's own candid opinion: "I believe I am much better today than I was when I quit in '53; I was worn out from those seasons of a hundred fights...